Posted on 09/21/2024 7:53:29 AM PDT by ducttape45
Good morning folks.
Last night I went to get on Youtube to check a couple of things. In addition, there were a few articles posted here that linked to Youtube. When I did, however, Youtube (on a Windows 10 computer) would not play or even pre-screen any videos. None, nada.
I tried to disable all my extensions and adblockers. Nothing worked. I check other browsers such as Edge and Palemoon, even basic Chromium, and all of those worked fine. I finally had to uninstall Brave, completely wipe all their data from my computer, then reinstall it. Afterwards it worked fine. This morning I checked my main PC, also a Windows 10 PC (this one I'm on now is my "entertainment" PC) and the same thing happened there as well.
I wanted to find out if this happened to anyone else. I thought maybe something installed that I didn't expect, or I had a general programming glitch. But it's very strange that the same thing happened to two different PCs.
Thank you for your time.
No problem here. I’m using up-to-date Brave on my poor old 2013 laptop. ;^) This is not on the wireless signal, it’s an ethernet cable (Walmart I think) over a USB-to-ethernet (the original built-in jack fell apart years ago).
Update for me. YouTube works on Microsoft browser but not Chrome.
Close all your windows.
Go to start and type “CMD”
Once in Command mode type the following command,
“shutdown -r -t 05”
Without the quotes of course.
Anyway, it will reboot your computer.I suspect you have Casche that is affecting your browser?
Once the computer comes back up, then try it again.
If that does work. Uninstall Brave. Reboot your machine, and install it again.
Brave Browser has components that are routinely updated. Occasionally, a component update causes some kind of trouble.
Search for “Brave Browser component update trouble”.
Try turning shields off. Then report it as a broken site. This happens to me with ESPN every month or two, but gets fixed pretty quickly.
Sounds like Microsoft is combatting misinformation by forcing you to use its own browser. /s
The last time my computer was updated I had ghost circles on the right side of my screen. My mouse had been almost 100% taken over. I along with many others had the same experience happen to them. After taking notes to go into my settings it boiled down to ********* this update gave microsoft the power to turn off my device to save power anytime they(?) felt necessary.
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THIS is the kind of “Stuff” (apologies to the Gong Show) that made me finally nuke the windows on wife’s machine and give her a machine with Linux Mint on it. All the Firefox bookmarks migrated across after saving them off the windows box and uploading them to the Linux box.
She is a seriously non-technical type but has had no problems with the Linux Mint. I have not received any complaints from her about the machine or had to “fix” anything on the machine.
Linux Mint loaded up easy, found everything, hooked up to the home wired network easy. I’ve tried the wireless, had to type in the password. That was it, hooked up again no problems.
Does anyone know there are four individual screens? Try the center button on the mouse. She’s on the XFCE window manager so YMMV.
Her old machine? I loaded FreeBSD on it. Not as easy or “friendly” as Linux Mint but I’m an old command-line warrior anyway so works fine for me. I don’t recommend it for the typical user.
Did you try clearing all YouTube cookies, then signing back into your account?
Brave fast and responsive, as usual, last night, this morning, and now...
Works for me.
I use click&clean extension
Sure did
Well, hope you can get the problem fixed.
Ping!....
It took reinstalling it, but so far so good. I wanted to give folks a head’s up as well in case they encounter the same problem.
I have a related problem using Brave or Chrome.
For me, some X/Twitter videos do not play - just spin endlessly in the loading cycle.
Approx 50% of X videos are a problem,
Any tips will be appreciated!
I have found over time that YouTube (Google) is forever fiddling with it’s format to prevent people recording videos, along the lines of Microsoft’s attitude that it owns everything any you’re blessed they let you “rent” it.
So rather than blaming over-zealous browser updates I’d cast an eye on YouTube’s proprietary mindset first. They’ve usually found a technical balance in the past when going over-zealous but nothing these arrogant companies do surprises me anymore.
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