Youtube won't work for me

A couple of days ago, Youtube just stopped working on me. The videos just won't buffer. A twelve second video will take 10 min to buffer. I've used this laptop for three years and have never had problems before, I didn't install anything recently either. The videos just won't buffer, it's been like this for 3 days. Popular videos featured on the front page on the other hand, works just fine. Although this morning it was working again, I was able to watch videos again. Then came the evening and it's full stop.

Anyone else had this problem or is it just me?

My antivirus, Avast, downloaded an update a couple of days ago. So I tried disabling the shields for it to see if anything happened. The first video I clicked buffered superfast and I thought I had solved it. But then every video I clicked after that just wouldn't buffer again. So I'm at a loss. My friends don't seem to be having problems and you guys neither. And it's weird because videos on other sites work just fine. Gamespot, Gametrailers, Break.com, no problems at all.

I'm thinking it could be my computer, but youtube did work for me a little while this morning plus that one video a couple of minutes ago.

I haven't had a problem.

Well, here's something interesting. I'm using Mozilla Firefox and I have the ad-blocker addon. When I disable it I can watch videos again. When I turn it on it stops buffering. Sneaky. Google probably don't want to see that ad revenue go to waste.

My antivirus, Avast, downloaded an update a couple of days ago. So I tried disabling the shields for it to see if anything happened. The first video I clicked buffered superfast and I thought I had solved it. But then every video I clicked after that just wouldn't buffer again. So I'm at a loss. My friends don't seem to be having problems and you guys neither. And it's weird because videos on other sites work just fine. Gamespot, Gametrailers, Break.com, no problems at all.

I'm thinking it could be my computer, but youtube did work for me a little while this morning plus that one video a couple of minutes ago.

Stressthesky

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My antivirus, Avast, downloaded an update a couple of days ago. So I tried disabling the shields for it to see if anything happened. The first video I clicked buffered superfast and I thought I had solved it. But then every video I clicked after that just wouldn't buffer again. So I'm at a loss. My friends don't seem to be having problems and you guys neither. And it's weird because videos on other sites work just fine. Gamespot, Gametrailers, Break.com, no problems at all.

I'm thinking it could be my computer, but youtube did work for me a little while this morning plus that one video a couple of minutes ago.

taxonomic

Well, after turning off ad block in Mozilla I can watch videos just fine. When I turn it on, the videos just starts buffering all the time again. In Internet Explorer (which I never use) videos won't buffer and I don't have ad block in IE. It's just baffling. Youtube is the only site I'm having problems on, as every other site loads lightning fast just as it should on a 20mb line. There might be something interfering with Youtube, but as I said I haven't downloaded or installed anything prior to these problems other than updating Avast.