Youtube ads showing in Brave

Description

When experiencing youtube video ads with shields up. We’re trying to diagnose the cause and see what a possible solution is.

Steps to Reproduce

• 1. Ensure shields is enabled
• 2. Open youtube.com link
• 3. Open the console Tab (Press F12)
• 4. Play youtube clip, with included ad video
• 5. Screenshot the output of the console tab when the advert is playing.
• 6. Does shields show any blocked items in Ads and Trackers?
• 7. Is the advert replicable in current, beta or nightly channels? (which version of Brave was tested)

Troubleshooting.

Some previous solutions which helped some people, Test each option individually to see which is the possible fix.

• - brave://net-internals/#dns -> Clear host cache, then refresh the youtube website, re-test for video ads.
• - brave://net-internals/#sockets -> Select Close idle sockets, and click Flush socket pools, then refresh the youtube website, re-test for video ads.
• - Chrome/Brave: Clearing Cache, brave://settings/clearBrowserData, then refresh the youtube website, re-test for video ads.

Miscellaneous Information:

1. Also testing in a private window mode, and/or in a new Brave profile with no extensions
2. Which video is causing the video advert, link here.

[vrischmann]

as of today, using v1.27.109 on Linux Desktop, I’m not seeing any ads on youtube.

[ryanbr]

No recent reports of youtube ads, seems to be okay.