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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

I have the same problem, and after you start clicking play, often you can wait it out and the video will eventually play on its own after 10-15 seconds

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[–] attero@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/

logout from google / clear cookies.
switch to a new "google" container and login to see your subscrpitions
if a video doesn't load switch to decontained

also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This does not work on phone OSes

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I use Grayjay on Android, and it tends to do a good job. I can have subscriptions w/o being logged in to my YT account, and videos load after 5 secs or so every time.

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[–] BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago

Thank you. You are the best

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