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TL;DR
- There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today.
- It turns out that YouTube is working fine.
- The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update.
YouTube has long been at war with ad blockers, implementing various measures to get users to turn off their extensions. As a result, we occasionally see some users report that an ad blocker has stopped working on the website. This time, however, it appears that YouTube has rolled out a big update that made the website unusable for a large number of viewers who have their ad blockers enabled.
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