YouTube triggering infinite reloading with Shields on

[dayvster]

Users running into this issue, please read this comment for how you can help us fix this.

Description

When visiting YouTube with Brave Shields turned on, the page gets stuck in an infinite reload loop. The reload happens immediately after the page finishes loading, making YouTube completely unusable unless Shields are disabled.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open Brave Browser.
2. Go to YouTube
3. Make sure Brave Shields are enabled.
4. Reload if needed
5. Observe the page reload infinitely

Actual result

The page reloads endlessly and never becomes usable.

Expected result

YouTube should load normally without entering an infinite reload loop when Shields are enabled.

Reproduces how often

Easily reproduced

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave: 1.82.172 Chromium: 140.0.7339.207 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision: ef9f711fe14ee363c1ff67b83ec107e548f3fd5d
OS: Linux

Channel information

• release (stable)
• beta
• nightly

Reproducibility

• with Brave Shields disabled
• with Brave Rewards disabled
• in the latest version of Chrome

Miscellaneous information

No response

[huxtab-del]

Happening here too

1.82.172 Chromium: 140.0.7339.207 (Official Build) (64-bit)

[TylerAustinW]

Chromium: 140.0.7339.207
Brave 1.82.172 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Everything is Fine here, no issues. @dayvster @huxtab-del

[huxtab-del]

Strange, it's resolved itself now. probably a YT issue

[dayvster]

Also resolved for me, must have been a YouTube issue

[MP4Noble]

Not resolved for me, had this issue for a few days, and temporarily cleared it by removing all cookies.

[dayvster]

@NobleIsTaken that's an interesting fix, can you potentially reproduce it?
And if so would you be willing to share any non personal data critical cookies?

[MP4Noble]

@dayvster I can try, its random when it stops working for me, so it might take me a moment.

[rebron]

cc: @ryanbr and @ShivanKaul

[Squtzy]

Having the same issue. I can temporarily fix this by clearing out youtube cookies and data. Turning off Shields makes it instantly work again like intended. Also seems like it gets fixed if I set Shields to "Allow all ads and trackers".

[Brave 1.82.172 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 140.0.7339.207

[ryanbr]

What Shield settings are enabled? Also expand the blocked items in ads&trackers

[Squtzy]

What Shield settings are enabled? Also expand the blocked items in ads&trackers

I usually turn on the "aggresively block trackers & ads" and "block all third-party cookies". Adding screenshots to showcase
Like I said in my inital reply, I can only fix it by either clearing cookies and data from youtube or turning off either shields completely or changing to "allow ALL trackers and ads".
As you can see in the screenshot it doesn't seem to block anything during the infinite refresh loop. At least not that I can see (?)

EDIT: I also tried disabling every filter list in content filters list and it still doesn't let me load youtube.

[NicoNekoDev]

Hopefully the console log will also help.