YouTube not working thanks to Vodafone

[jstott1070]

For a couple of weeks now YouTube is very hit and miss as you if its working or not via the Vodafone Fibre 200 broadband. It was working fine before and nothing changed my end however all devices in the house suffer with ads not loading, random videos failing to load, shorts only playing a small portion of the video etc. I am using an Asus router and therefore the "Support" team refuse to help in any way. 

Connecting to a VPN resolves the issue which to be points towards the VodaFone DNS servers / filtering etc. I have tried using alternative DNS servers with no luck. 

Any ideas? Anyone else suffering the same? 

All other streaming services are functioning fine, its purely a YouTube issue and seems to be to be related to the ads. maybe something related to tracking??

[jstott1070]

I rest my case

[MartinHealy5]

I have been having the same YouTube issues that many others have been reporting on the forum. Lots of buffering and black screen when the adverts should be playing. I often see the Ads in 3-2-1 message at the bottom right of the screen but then the screen goes black for the duration of the ads.  I also experience a lot of what seems to be buffering.  Please explain and provide a solution.  This is happening on al devices - smart TV, laptops, iPad.

[Jayach]

As @Ripshod pointed out earlier, you would be better off posting in:

YouTube terrible speed and buffering - Community home (vodafone.co.uk)