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I use YouTube on a daily basis. I haven't seen any of these problems.
by recursive 11mo ago
I use YouTube on a daily basis. I haven't seen any of these problems.
- latexr 11mo agoAre you using Chrome or a Chromium browser? From experience and reports I’ve seen, that seems to make a huge difference.
- NooneAtAll3 11mo agodo you never encounter opening youtube video in a new tab only for video itself to load, while rest of the page doesn't?
- mikkupikku 11mo agoThat happens to me about 50% of the time. I assume it's google engineers not testing on Firefox.
- mavamaarten 11mo agoHah. I always assume it's them actively trying to make the experience worse on anything that is not Chrome.
- kiwijamo 11mo agoThat's never happened for me and I normally watch 5-10+ YouTube videos daily. Firefox.
- gaudystead 11mo agoI experience this, but only with YouTube Shorts. Video loads, but none of the elements around it.
- thenthenthen 11mo agoI have, and recently, i nothing is loading until i open a new video in another tab, then all of a sudden both pages start loading and playing :s
- riidom 11mo agoYes happens sometimes to me, Vivaldi.
- recursive 11mo agoI've never seen that. I use Firefox.
- busymom0 11mo agoThis has happened to me frequently. Also many times, the video won't play. If I reload the page, then it will play.
- raydev 11mo agoAre you running any extensions that modify content?
- wiml 11mo agoThat sounds pretty nice. Is there a way to do it on purpose?
- BonitaPersona 11mo agoI know that's a tongue-in-cheek joke, but just in case I'm fond of the plugin unhook.
- shevy-java 11mo agoSince some days I suddenly get freezes in the tab; these unfreeze after some time, say 20 seconds or so, but I notice a delay. Something has really changed to the worse lately. I think it has to do with anti-ad programs as well as AI, like the UI also changed. It is important to point out that while you do not have any issues, other people do or may.
- embedding-shape 11mo agoI had that happen some week ago too! I had to clear site data + cookies for YouTube in Firefox before I got it to work again.
- BrenBarn 11mo agoI've been seeing weird stuff where the video will play but the page is unresponsive: can't click to pause, can't click the time index bar to move to a different point in the video, etc. Then I close the tab, and the audio keeps playing! It will play for 10-15 seconds before cutting out. Bizarre. . .
- dtlarson 11mo ago[dead]
- PuercoPop 11mo agoIt is likely you use Chrome or a browser that uses Blink for its engine and the OP uses a non-blink browser like Firefox. I use Firefox and I can cofirm since the last few months Youtube usability borders on usable
- MrNeon 11mo agoI use Firefox with uBlock and besides a couple of times where video start was delayed by a few seconds it has been working as well as before.
- viftodi 11mo agoGoogle does A/B testing for anti ad blockers. Not only do I get slowdowns and some videos don't load at all at times, but I also get a notification that explains that the reason is using adblockers.
- oldestofsports 11mo agoHere I am, totally given up on adblockers, and no way I’m paying for premium, but jesus christ the amount of ads I get, sometimes seems to be one every minute, making most videos unwatchable. Though it’s mostly good for my addiction since it makes me use youtube less.
- o11c 11mo agoRecently I've found Youtube to just show a white screen if it detects Firefox+uBO.
- Ohmec 11mo agoThere's probably scripts you can add to your ubo to combat this.
- tedivm 11mo agoFor the last two days I haven't been able to watch youtube videos on Firefox without disabling uBlock.
- johnisgood 11mo agoWell... I have many new, emerging problems with YouTube as of lately. For example I have to scroll down a lot to get to the comment section, the suggestions are all over the place, and so forth. Annoying. Also due to uBlock Origin, some videos do not start and I have to refresh. It is not much of an issue for me but the fact that apparently I need a huge monitor to see the "old layout" is a problem for me.
- ryandrake 11mo agoIt feels like "serving you the video you actually want to see" has become some kind of unimportant side quest, as opposed to serving you the crap (Ads, Shorts, recommendations, comments, sponsored content) that they would rather you be looking at.
- taneq 11mo agoThis is the essence of enshittification. The good fast useful free offering is the bait, and this... stuff... is the switch.
- tuhgdetzhh 11mo agoOnly if you use Googles Chrome Browser. Other browsers have issues like Firefox[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41379517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41379517
- metalliqaz 11mo agoI can no longer watch videos on YouTube with Firefox. When Firefox dies, the last glimmer of hope will go out.
- immibis 11mo agoI considered it as motivation to switch more from Firefox to Zen, where it works, I guess because Google doesn't recognize it as Firefox and doesn't apply the anti-competition script?
- Khaine 11mo agoAirplay from youtube is broken for me. I airplay and instead of english, I get german and no way to change the language. This is not an isolated incident. See https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1id4amh/youtube_changes_language_when_airplaying_to_apple/ https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1id4amh/youtube_ch... and https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255931836 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255931836
- dotancohen 11mo agoYouTube is currently A/B testing some real annoyances: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45868987 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45868987