I think youtube might have implemented something that prevents the server from delivering the video files until the expected duration of the ad has passed. This idea is completely unfounded, but this is what it feels like to me.
Have you noticed uBlock Origin being a bit hit and miss on YouTube lately? I’ve had it happen a few times lately where the video won’t play, or an ad comes up but doesn’t play. I’ve had to keep refreshing until it gets to normal where it just plays the damn video.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe it is a regional thing? I was watching YouTube 30 mins ago with no issues and haven’t ever had any unless I open a new tab but don’t try to watch u til the next day. Then I just need to refresh and it is off to the races.
baines@lemmy.cafe 23 hours ago
a b testing
or he needs to update his unlock
elvith@feddit.org 1 day ago
Work PC and I have to use edge there with Ghostery (ugh). Was trying to find a decent coding tutorial. Every page load of a video was a playback error that instantly vanished when I hit reload. No problems on FF with uBO today, though.
july@leminal.space 1 day ago
What about the UI elements? Because they take a long time to load too
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Thats fine for me. Just make sure to always “Reject all” on the cookies. If you accept then the whole site sometimes breaks for me.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I sometimes get a popup warning from YouTube that my account will be blocked from viewing videos if I keep running an ad blocker. But the warning goes away after a while and YouTube still works. I don’t see ads except on mobile.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oddly, they also keep begging me to “return” to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.
This is just ‘normal’ commercial psychological manipulation.
Returning sounds better than starting, so a small percentage of people would sign up that wouldn’t have otherwise if it was worded accurately.
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If on mobile, try setting it to desktop mode. Also, getting the chameleon extension and pretending you are using chrome can also help.
protist@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I haven’t had any issues like that, it’s been working fine for me
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I use different shared PCs at work and this happens every time on the Windows 11 machines. Some ad plays before the video, but disappears when I refresh the page. This doesn’t happen on the Win 10 machines we still have left. In forced to use Chrome there but everything has UBlock Lite enabled.
Gnugit@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Yes
n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No. It works across all my systems. I never see ads on YT. However…
Videos not loading or playing delayed: That’s a YT feature which they implemented for Firefox users, to annoy them. And to promote Chrome as “the fastest” webbrowser.
I also have dns issues at home… I should fix them already. Sometimes, a page doesn’t load on the first try.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 day ago
You can try user agent switcher. Sometimes it is detected or causes issues, but if YouTube thinks you are running Chrome then you may get better service.
zewm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I experience the same issue. All the elements on the page load extremely slow or sometimes not at all.
CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I noted an experimental rule in uBO to address delays, but have not tried it yet myself.