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
It happens every so often. Give it some time and it start working again.
They’re probably a/b testing it at the moment
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.
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
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
No trouble using FreeTube.
Me neither.
- Browser: Zen (fork 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
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.
Yeah I read an article yesterday that they’re rolling out new stronger ad blocker detection.
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 just you. I’m using Firefox 138.0.4 64-bit (linux) and uBO 1.64.0 and youtube works fine for me.
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.
Don’t know if it’s related, but thus got posted yesterday
No issues on my end with ublock origin + Firefox
No issues for me with Firefox and uBlock Origin. Do you have origin or just uBlock?
uBlock Origin. YouTube videos are playing without issue now!
Now that I think about it, if I leave a video tab open overnight it sometimes has to be refreshed to play the next day. That is the one thing that I have run into with youtube.
seems to work for me rn but youtube’s web ui has been extremely slow for the past few years. videos take more than 15 secs to load and start… to the point where running a terminal and doing yt-dlp & mpv is much quicker/easier.
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.
How long did you wait when this came up? I believe it might be just blocking the video playback until the expected (by youtube) length of the (blocked) ad has finished, after which the video starts playing as usual.
Right-click the link and open it in a private tab, or copy the url and open a private tab, and paste it. You’ll have to re-enable your web extensions. Google is cracking down on ad blockers.
For some reason, though, I stopped having to do that. I have no idea what I did. I’m using multiple ad blockers. I’m using multiple extensions that alter YouTube. I have no idea why they suddenly stopped caring about my web extensions.
I also have other extensions that skip sponsors, add down votes, etc… those have been SUPER spotty recently.
