According to Adblock, uninstalling the "YouTube" "app" resolves the issue. Google, however, has already been out-thought, with the following fix advised for affected users: It seems that AdBlock considers only the ‘Skip’ button to be an advert. The sneakiest aspect of the bypass is that AdBlock users are forced to watch the whole video advertisement, while users without ad-blocking software have the option to skip.
The bypass is not exclusive to AdBlock Plus, either, with similar extensions also affected.
YouTube now treats ads as pre-videos on the site, and only the skip ad button is seen as an ad by adblock. So YouTube has finally clamped down on Adblock, if Adblock is active on the page, the pre-roll ad will play without a skip option. Twitter is predictably abuzz, with multiple reports emerging from AdBlock Plus users that the extension is not working on Google sites while using Chrome: Google in particular has been hit by use of the extension, which prevents pre-roll ads on YouTube, and now it seems the company has found a way to suppress AdBlock’s influence on its video streaming site. AdBlock and its variants have long been the bane of commercial websites, with drops in revenue blamed directly on advert blocking software.
Reports on Twitter suggest that Google Chrome has started to bypass the popular AdBlock Plus extension.
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