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YouTube has long been cracking down on viewers who use ad blockers on its site. If you try to watch a video with an ad blocker on, playback won’t be enabled until you turn the extension off. Although the platform is pretty effective at stopping most ad blockers, there are a few options that do still work. However, it appears YouTube has found a way to close some of those remaining gaps in its defense.

In the latest chapter of this long-running ad blocker saga, a growing number of free users are showing frustration over not being able to use YouTube’s service without having to sit through ads. Reports on Reddit claim that some previous workarounds, like uBlock Origin and AdBlock, are no longer working. As a result, these users are starting to see warnings, like the one in the image below. In other cases, the home page on YouTube is completely blank.