I have UBlock installed on Firefox and what is pictured here is what has been happening for every video that I’m clicking on. Panning doesn’t make the video play either. I tried that. It’s not my internet connection since the videos and ads that you can’t even skip and pause when you tab out play just fine on Chrome. In the days before this happened I got several popups from YouTube saying that adblockers aren’t allowed after months of browsing YouTube ad-free without issue
They’re testing something and you’re one of the lucky winners to be sampled. Usually it goes away in a day or until uBO catches up and deploys an update.
I’ve had this happen when using VPN. I also tried disabling ublock, but I get this behavior for 5-10 seconds before the video loads. I get no such behavior on Chrome.
This is probably another attempt at Google degrading the experience for people not using Chrome.
Happens to me on Chrome (with uBlock).
Yes. They did that years ago.
The ad-blockers are constantly working into evading the ban. You may need to update your ad-blocker of your browser.
It’s working for me now!
CTRL SHIFT R can help too, forced refresh of all cached data.
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin and for the last week or more every Youtube video I open takes about 10 or so seconds to open, just sitting there spinning.
Try using the extension that can spoof what browser you’re using. Last year, Firefox was being hindered by YouTube until I downloaded that and made it think I was using a Chrome browser.
Sure would be nice if we had net neutrality back and they couldn’t pull this bullshit
Sometimes I wonder if Firefox actually has low market share, of if this sort of shit just skews the statistics.
I, for one, refuse to spoof my browser because I want them to know Chrome is not as dominant as they think.
That’s not the reason for low market share. Most people just don’t use ff
Most people just don’t use ff
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user agent strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.
Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜
That’s my reasoning as well
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-mask/
This extension also shims a few additional JavaScript attributes, like navigator.vendor or the global chrome object, to pass common browser checks
Same here. It’s not even that annoying, but noticable.
I find that often the player will spin like this for 10-20 secs before starting to play. I wonder if it’s trying to play an ad, and the ad is being successfully blocked but the video doesn’t start until the length of the ad is over. If you see the black screen and the loading spinner, try just waiting for 30 secs and seeing if it starts on its own.
When YouTube does anything weird I switch my VPN to a neighboring country that’s less popular. Suddenly YouTube loads everything without problem.
It’s a cat and mouse game. They’re constantly doing this. Just wait a little while and ublock should find a way around the block.
Youtube is run like shit. I get frequently told to turn off my adblocker… when I don’t even have extensions installed. It’s already annoying as fuck dealing with ads but it’s some kafka-lite bullshit to be told you’re not watching them.
Yeah I read an article yesterday that they’re rolling out new stronger ad blocker detection.
You’re not alone. But since YouTube is such a shitshow anyway I’m kinda glad to be pushed away for being privacy and security conscious. Invidious instances are a good point of transition while adapting to Peertube and such. Sure, most video content is uploaded to YouTube, but that’s also part of the charm of using alternatives. There’s less garbage to filter and some geniunely good and passionate (not algorithm driven) creators to discover.
This happened for me on Brave. I deleted all cookies and logged in again. Worked fine after.
Then it happened after a week… Cat and mouse game.
No trouble using FreeTube.
Me neither.
- Browser: Zen (mod of Firefox)
- Extension: LibRedirect (pre-installed in Zen IIRC)
- App: FreeTube
I click on a YouTube link and it opens in FreeTube, no ads.
Every now and then, videos won’t play because of some change by Google, usually it’s just a day or so until FreeTube releases an update that works again.
no problems at all for me because I pay for the shit I use
