bleistift2@sopuli.xyz to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoYouTube not loading half the time.sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageYouTube not loading half the time.sopuli.xyzbleistift2@sopuli.xyz to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarefeef@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI 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.
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat’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.
minus-squareSergio@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSometimes 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.
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.
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.
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.