Technology

YouTube started throwing playback errors for me this last week on pc (Firefox with ublock and pihole).

I was able to get around it by opening links in a container tab without being signed in. New container for each link

Libredirect and (self-hosted 😉) invidious is the way

Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.

For a while, I've had problems with a patched yt app. Been going on for probably months at this point, but even with the latest ReVanced patches I still end up with, if lucky, video plays for 10 seconds before infinite loading. Makes me have to use the PipePipe (NewPipe fork) app more than I want, but at least I get ad free videos.

I'd use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

Jokes on them, i stopped watching youtube videos years ago

This is happening to me, on a minority of videos I click on, sometimes the video will start at random places midway through and even close to the end. Most times it doesn't happen tho (I am aware the videos start playing on the home/search page now, this isn't it).

I am using youtube premium tho, no adblock just their official app with premium on my phone. This problem started like one or two weeks ago max.

I'm not quite understanding what the benefit is to forcing skips to the end of the video. Having to click to the beginning of the video takes a fraction of a second which is still a better user experience than sitting through a 15 to 30 second ad.

I'm surprised Google didn't try to push some sort of compiled javascript, to avoid examination, till now.

I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG's privacy ad on's and I have no problems with YT