@vermaden is this on youtube-dot-com or youtube videos embedded in other sites?I've seen the latter several times recently, but haven't encountered the former in a long time

@vermaden Invidious may avoid YT shenanagins

@vermaden Not sure if it's relevant but I read elsewhere that YouTube is insisting on referrer information now (as of a fairly recent change) to play video embeds and possibly other formats too. Might be worth checking.

@vermaden Every. Single. Fscking. Time. (I now use freetube systematically.)

@vermaden I've heard from some people youtube is not working with Firefox since 6 months regardless of OS. Some say if the user agent is FF they added a forced timeout through jacascript. Another one said they introduced some testing for random users in blocking FF entirely to test the waters. Probably to bind YT to Chrome because of adblockers.For me it still works fine with FF. But as the yt-dlp devs noted, they will put more and more stones on the road: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue

@vermaden It's not just you! I've got three Android apps that no longer play videos, also Firefox and the DuckDuckGo browsers fail on Android. I haven't tested Linux yet.FFS tells me I'm not permitted to play this video in my browser and I must use the app.DDG tells me that YT thinks I'm using a VPN and to stop using it. (I'm not using one.)Newpipe etc apps throw up that I need to login to prove I'm not on a VPN. Cheers.

@vermaden For me, plays fine for youtube.com directly and embedded in any page with firefox on FreeBSD.But on embedded video, try to move to youtube.com via the link on the video always fail.

@vermaden @stefano no, I don't click YouTube link and when I do by accident I immediately close it. Just copy the link and check else where. I don't use facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, YouTube, gmail the last two I mean directly. And soon I will not use Google certified android os like I don't use windows, unless obliged for some very specific task or job.