Another punishment by YouTube or a bug?

The latest punishment appears to skip YouTube videos straight to the end and occasionally play clips without audio.

feels like YouTube/Google’s latest tactic against adblocking fans involves skipping videos straight to the end.

Ad blocker users say YouTube videos are skipping to the end, playing without audio

Other users commented that YouTube videos were playing with no audio.

It was only after they disabled Adblock that it started playing normally.

Adjusting the volume slider brought the audio back but only for a second before it muted again.

It led to asurgein the number of people uninstalling their ad blockers.