YouTube is currently down for thousands of users across the United States, with most reporting that videos are not loading. As of 2 p.m. EDT Friday, outage tracking site DownDetector had received ...

As for YouTube Premium, it's not cheap at $13.99 per month, and therefore a short delay before videos play seems like a small price to pay to save $140 a year (if you pay annually).

YouTube is deliberately slowing video loading for users with ad blockers enabled, in what appears to be an escalation in Google's campaign against ad-blocking extensions.

Google has now issued a statement, attributing the delay in loading YouTube videos to ad blockers and confirming that users must wait a bit if they continue using them.

YouTube needs an internet connection to work. Videos buffer or don't load when you have a poor internet connection. Check if your mobile data is turned on from the quick settings menu.

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