YouTube is currently experiencing difficulties with loading the comment sections on its videos, which some users believe may be an effect of anti-adblock measures. Numerous reports from Reddit users indicate that not only are comments failing to load, but in some cases, the video descriptions are also inaccessible.
Various users have attempted several workarounds, such as refreshing the page, which occasionally resolves the issue and suggests it may be a persistent problem on the site. However, the most reliable remedy discovered to date is simply disabling the ad blocker.
Comments and video descriptions are failing to load for some usersInterestingly, even some YouTube Premium subscribers are experiencing these issues. Historically, Google has exempted Premium users from various anti-adblock implementations, but this time they appear to be affected as well.
In recent updates, Google has also closed certain background playback loopholes for free users (while maintaining this feature for Premium subscribers) and has begun restricting the number of lyrics available on YouTube Music for free accounts (now limited to five lyrics per month).
A quick check using Chrome with uBlock Origin Lite indicated no issues while logged into a YouTube Premium account, nor when signed out. Are you experiencing this problem?
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