Post #381570

2026-02-16 10:57 UTC

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don't read the article, here's the important bits: This only affects some users, not everyone The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty The issue goes away with a refresh, you don't need to turn off the adblocker, though you'll have to refresh every video It affects all videos The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it's turned on again There's no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article It affects Premium users too edit: added "the article" after "don't read" to clarify

Replies (6)

@MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 11:15

This is why I will _never_ get premium. You pay the motherfuckers money and still have to take it up the ass.

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@fistac0rpse@fedia.io 2026-02-16 12:37

"there's currently no way around it" "The issue goes away with a refresh" lol. sounds more like a bug if it's also affecting Premium users though

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@kadu@scribe.disroot.org 2026-02-16 11:59

> The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty So it makes the page even better?

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@Decq@lemmy.world 2026-02-16 11:21

Imagine being a paying Premium member and still get caught by this.. That said, the YouTube comments are worth shit, so not much is lost there. The descriptions can be quite annoying when missing. I really should start looking into yt-dlp or something. Anybody know if that's still working fine these days?

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@arcine@jlai.lu 2026-02-16 19:53

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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-02-16 14:54

All those issues have existed for a while now in non-Chromium based browsers; hell I get them using the app on my smart TV and that doesn't even block ads. Especially with YouTube Shorts. I don't think it has anything to do with blocking ads. It's just youtube being shit in general.

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