Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
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.
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.
Opera is owned by the Chinese now.🤔
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.
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.
Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
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".
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.
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.
> 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.
I use the Grayjay viewer from Futo, and I’ve noticed several times in the last couple weeks a YouTube plugin update.
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