Comment on YouTube not loading half the time.

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m 95% sure it’s a combination of Linux + Firefox + uBlock Origin and YouTube is trying to make me get rid of all three of those. Not gonna happen.

  I mean, I could try disabling uBlock Origin, but either way I don’t get to see content, so what’s the point? 🥲

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  • feef@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have ff and ublock on windows and every now and then YouTube videos have issues like stopping playing and not recovering (where an ad would play).

    Only fix is to hard refresh the page.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s one of their antiAdBlock features, actually, and it’s working as designed. Hard refresh doesn’t work for me. I stopped using yt site on desktop, and only use freetube now. If a video doesn’t play on that, I yt-dlp it.

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    • Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sometimes hard refresh wasn’t enough and I had to actually quit firefox (which also cleared cookies) and try again. Doesn’t happen too often tho.

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      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Each month I lean more towards the notion that FF devs are retarded. Why do you have to close the browser to clear the cookies rather than having a hard refresh do that?

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have Firefox and ublock and watch an ungodly amount of YT, no issues.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m having no problem with YouTube using Firefox and uBlock on Android

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Another one with Linux + FF + uB-O here, and I also don’t have problems with Youtube.

    But they broke uB-O recently, maybe you need to upgrade it.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would use Newpipe. On mobile you can get it from F-droid and on desktop you can use Waydroid if you are on Linux.

    Just a side note but I would use there F-droid repo over F-droid main

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pipepipe is Newpipe with sponsorblock btw.

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