Reports on Reddit from YouTube users with ad blocker encountered a new way of blocking ads. The YouTube video player will simply skip to the end of the video if it detects an ad blocker, regardless of trying to start from the middle of the video or replaying it. The only solution is to disable the ad blocker beforehand.
In the past, Google’s cat-and-mouse game with ad blocking software on YouTube started with warning messages preventing video playback. There were even reports of slow video loading, which Google attributed to issues with the ad blocking software itself. Skipping to the end of the video as a countermeasure is the latest defense strategy.
Source: 9to5Google
TLDR: YouTube implemented a new method where the video player skips to the end if it detects an ad blocker, requiring users to disable the ad blocker to watch the video.
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