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I have many utube sites bookmarked. When selecting anyone of them it returns a grey screen with a few grey circles or rectangles on a blank screen.

I have many utube sites bookmarked. When selecting anyone of them it returns a grey screen with a few grey circles or rectangles on a blank screen.

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Well you were right. It probably was the ad blocker, but the odd thing is that when a utube would not work I would go to the ad blocker ultimate and find the slider either off or on. If I just slide it to the other position the video would work. Now if I go to another utube video it would not play, but moving the slider again would make that site work. I did that game for a half day and now utube works every time without having to move the slider. I don't know enough about ad blocker to understand this at all.

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Hi, are these URLs along the lines of what you see in the address bar while playing a video, for example,

https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=sN-yrZ1UnEY

or are they in some other format?

(When sharing URLs to YouTube, to avoid a possible spam link block, put a space between youtube and .com.)

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jscher thanks for the help. As it turns out I had to make a pin to sign in to windows to make this problem go away. All is good now..............thanks again

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Well yesterday it worked fine but today it is not working again. When trying to watch a utube vides the screen looks normal just like any other time, but the section where the video would normally show is just white. I can see comments, and the other possible video selections along the right side, but that's all.

Here is an example of one that won't play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hXYININJw

Here is one that will play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcCn_EeeZ48&t=9s

I have cleared cache and cookies

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Do you have any add-ons related to videos, such as video ad blockers or downloaders/recorders? You could disable those and see whether that makes any difference.

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Well you were right. It probably was the ad blocker, but the odd thing is that when a utube would not work I would go to the ad blocker ultimate and find the slider either off or on. If I just slide it to the other position the video would work. Now if I go to another utube video it would not play, but moving the slider again would make that site work. I did that game for a half day and now utube works every time without having to move the slider. I don't know enough about ad blocker to understand this at all.

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pupdog1 said

Well you were right. It probably was the ad blocker, but the odd thing is that when a utube would not work I would go to the ad blocker ultimate and find the slider either off or on. If I just slide it to the other position the video would work. Now if I go to another utube video it would not play, but moving the slider again would make that site work. I did that game for a half day and now utube works every time without having to move the slider. I don't know enough about ad blocker to understand this at all.

Hello,

Since the problem appears to be solved, I've marked your message as a solution. If the issue arises again, don't hesitate to ask a new question.

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