Computer Problem: Brave Browser stopped Playing Youtube Videos

9/21/2024 | Me

[Mr Rogers]

I can play videos from YouTube on Brave but cannot log in to YouTube on Brave. No issues using Waterfox. This has been true for the last couple of years. I rarely want to log in to YouTube, but on those rare times, I have to use another browser.

[BiteYourSelf]

Opera is owned by the Chinese now.🤔

[dagunk]

Thank you for your information. I now have 25 windows I leave open. I’m much better than I use to be leaving 75 or more.

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I start getting confused at ten or more.

I also use this

echo “Name?”
read filename
printf ‘\033]2;%s\007’ $filename

to set the xterm name in FreeBSD. Dunno if it’ll work under Mint. Helps me keep track.

[linMcHlp]

On mobile phones, and on computers, Brave Browser has a “Report a Broken Site” link-button to click.

The resulting window (of some form) includes a field wherein you may add a description.

Brave support needs to know:

- Computing device
- Computing device Operating System
- Version of Brave Browser
- Versions of other browser you compared, used to test

In the case of “problem using Brave or Chrome,” that would be considered as *something in common* - such as the Chromium engine that is the actual browser package within Brave Browser and within Google’s Chrome browser.

Brave Browser can be frustrating - for some website usage - because Brave takes the Chromium engine and de-Googles it. Brave also uses a variety of methods to mask (ie prevent) websites from detecting information about:

- you
- your computing device
- software on your computing device

. . . while the websites, on the other hand, are trying to dig up a lot of identifying information.

Websites using Cloudflare, or Google’s reCAPTCHA, are examples of where Brave Browser users may notice a trend in website troubles.

Brave Browser’s Shields system, when completely turned OFF by the user for a certain troublesome website, is NOT a guarantee of thereafter gaining success at rendering the website. BUT reporting the site, using the above-mentioned button, does get Brave support attention.

A lot of websites are designed in expectation of timely responses from computing devices of website visitors; but many Internet users are NOT able to afford the kind of high-speed connections that some websites assume/expect us to use.

So, failures may occur on a mere glitch where a website server expects what cannot be returned to it from an Internet browser *for many reasons.*

AdBlock [Plus] -type software is built in to Brave Browser, and the fellow who is the primary developer at AdBlock, routinely investigates the website failures that are reported. Meaning, that sometimes, the render-failure can be fixed by that developer’s efforts.

[dayglored]

Browser problem ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!

[dayglored]

> So rather than blaming over-zealous browser updates I’d cast an eye on YouTube’s proprietary mindset first.

They have a business model. It doesn't involve altruism, it involves monetizing the "free" videos. No surprises there. They do what they do for a reason, and it ain't "give everything away for free with no return".

[ducttape45]

I get all that, but why did the problem arise on just my Brave browser? Why were none of the other affected? That’s the mystery behind what happened.

[PAR35]

Following up on this thread- I looked at youtube last night after the re-boot, and no issues at all.

I have had to re-download Brave a couple of times over the years. Sometimes an update will break your installed version.

[dayglored]

> I get all that, but why did the problem arise on just my Brave browser? Why were none of the other affected? That’s the mystery behind what happened.

Brave has some features regarding security and protection from malware that other browsers don’t have, and it might be that those extra features ran afoul of YouTube’s latest changes. That’s just a speculation.

[Still Thinking]

I use the Grayjay viewer from Futo, and I’ve noticed several times in the last couple weeks a YouTube plugin update.

[linMcHlp]

What does Brave remove from the Chromium engine?

[linMcHlp]

Brave Browser - How do I use Shields while browsing?