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Is YouTube cracking down on ad blockers?

There is much speculation that ad blockers for YouTube have stopped working because of YouTube's crackdown, but there could be other reasons.

In the past week, users using ad blockers may have experienced suboptimal viewing, which included delays in loading, regardless of the browser they are using. However, as Ars Technica pointed out, the slow buffering experienced by some users might be due to a bug in one of the most popular ad blockers, Adblock Plus. uBlock Origin (free and open source, supports most popular browsers) AdBlocker Ultimate ($2.49 per month billed annually, claims to work on a system level to overcome new ad technology) AdGuard ($2 per month, billed annually, works similarly to AdBlocker Ultimate)

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