For whatever reason now when I have Ublock enabled every page on YouTube loads twice, and playlists are completely unusable as they reload indefinitely. If I disable Ublock this stops. Every other site seems to be just fine.
Have you tried updating your lists? Do you maybe have a on of weird lists enabled?
I can’t say I’ve experienced this issue with FF and UBO. Also what version of FF?
Fully up to date. Have completely purged UBO and reinstalled to the same effect. 😭
That and and/or a yt-dlp script that checks a textfile for a list of subscribtions.
Chatgpt is capable enough to help with both if you dont know how.
I love that the workaround to YouTube permanently breaking AdBlock and NewPipeExtractor is to just download everything that might be interesting, using 4-5 times the bandwith or something. I have paid once for my unlimited Gigabit, and it’s more than enough (down at least). Does YouTube?
Correctly if i am wrong but i always consider it actually saves bandwidth.
If you watch a vid in full you have essentially downloaded it in cache. Rewinding, skipping can mean your actually dowloaded parts multiple times. While a script downloads it exactly once to enjoy full quality and performance.
This is of course if you do watch them all. Which is why i combine it with invidious for everything thats not a favorite. I have a few filters to weed out live, shorts, certain series on a channel.
The reason i am not using invidious for everything is cause some stuff i really want to keep and google does break invidious every few months requiring a reinstall at worst. I still dont want that to cause me to miss my comfortshows.
Technically it (invidious, NewPipe) should only download stuff once, and it will only download e.g… 70 seconds if you see that the video is not interesting in the first 10 seconds.
This is always an option but not exactly a solution, appreciate it either way.
YouTube have a habit of A/B testing, i.e. they push different interface code to some people and not others. As such, some of us won’t have received that particular update and they’ll be watching and comparing their analytics between people using the platform to see which ones are actually struggling.
Because they desperately want people who use ad-blockers to struggle, and not anyone else.
uo is very configurable so there may be some tweaks to the settings you can do. check around on the uo wiki for YouTube’s periodic fixes.
i was having similar trouble with Firefox, so I just downloaded waterfox instead and all the plugins have worked normally for a couple months now.
you might want to try that.
IMHO it’s just that you had problems with your firefox installation. Probably if you had tried a new profile or reset it using troubleshooting menu it would have been the same.
My reco for OP is to try troubleshooting information to clean your profile.
unfortunately not.
it was a new firefox install on a new machine.
same problem with two full uninstalls and reinstalls, no profile settings to speak of.
whatever the problem is with Firefox(I guess bloat), it wasn’t that.
As soon as I installed waterfox, the plugins worked fine.
so it appears to be a problem with Firefox right now, since waterfox responds much more quickly and works fine with plug-ins.
I would infer YouTube blocking Firefox protocols before looking at Firefox profiles as an issue in this case.
