YouTube Music becomes unavailable when the beta YouTube ad-blocking feature is enabled

Hello NextDNS team!

I'd like to report a compatibility issue with the new beta YouTube ad-blocking feature available under Privacy → Blocklists.

During my testing, I discovered that enabling this feature makes YouTube Music completely unusable.

Observed behavior

When the beta YouTube ad-blocking feature is enabled:

• Regular YouTube works perfectly, and advertisements are successfully blocked.

• YouTube Music fails to load its online services.

• The Android app displays a message stating that YouTube Music is not available in my country.

• Online music streaming and cloud library access become unavailable.

• Only locally stored music remains accessible.

Testing and reproduction

I tested the feature in both enabled and disabled states.

• Feature disabled: YouTube Music works normally across my devices.

• Feature enabled: YouTube Music becomes unavailable again.

This behavior is reproducible in my environment.

Environment

• Country: Brazil

• DNS provider: NextDNS

• Feature: Beta YouTube ad-blocking

• Affected service: YouTube Music

• Affected platform: Android

Expected behavior

The beta feature should block YouTube advertisements without interfering with YouTube Music functionality, including regional availability checks, online streaming, search, and cloud library access.

Request

Could you please investigate whether the beta YouTube ad-blocking infrastructure or its filtering rules are inadvertently interfering with YouTube Music?

In particular, the incorrect country availability message makes me wonder whether some requests required for regional availability checks or service initialization are being affected.

I understand that this is a beta feature, and I appreciate the work being done to improve YouTube ad blocking.

I'd be happy to provide additional DNS logs, timestamps, and reproduction steps if needed.

Thank you for your time and for maintaining NextDNS!