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Same here. Seems to be an "allow 3rd party cookies" thing. Broken as designed, so no more you tube commenting for me.
by jamesbritt 13y ago
Same here. Seems to be an "allow 3rd party cookies" thing. Broken as designed, so no more you tube commenting for me.
- Steuard 13y agoSo you've been able to figure out the cause of this? Is there a site out there that explains the details? (Not that an inability to comment on YouTube is much of a hardship, but it's occasionally frustrating.)
- jamesbritt 13y agoI Googled around and came across a Google support page where someone (probably not a Googler) explained that they had to change their "allow 3rd-party cookies" settings because YouTube and the commenting system was loading shit form everywhere. Possible the everywhere was all Google property, but the idea that I had to turn off a privacy setting in order to comment on YouTube was just dumb. Others on that page confirmed it. Sorry, I don't have a link. The explanation on the page sounded plausible enough that I said, "OK. Fuck it." I just checked and this seems to only happen to me on Chrome, but not on Firefox. Firefox shows my G+ avatar; Chrome seems not to know who am for YouTube comments, but knows who I am for YouTube channel stuff. Nice. Now I have to go see how insecure my Firefox settings are. :)
- Steuard 13y agoAh, I see: yeah, I've got 3rd party cookies disabled in Firefox, so that's presumably my problem. If there were a way to make an exception only for YouTube requesting a Google+ cookie, I'd do it. But I'm not willing to give Google+ a blanket pass on all sites, and it doesn't look like Firefox's cookie controls are fine-grained enough for that. (Maybe I could look for an extension...)