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Title: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 20 June, 2020, 07:05:58 pm

Is anyone else getting error messages when attempting to play Youtube?

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This started happening a day or two ago. Initially I was still able to view some videos. Now, I can’t view any. Correction: I can view some vids.

I cleared Safari caches. Rebooted the router. Signed in and out. No change.

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: andrewc on 20 June, 2020, 07:11:23 pm

Same here.    Some stuff works, some doesn't but plays OK in Opera.

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Andy64 on 21 June, 2020, 09:42:26 am

I was getting this a couple or weeks ago on a Chromebook/Chrome.
A quick refresh solved the immediate problem, but I never found out why.
Then one day it stopped happening

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 07 July, 2020, 06:02:27 pm

This is ongoing and getting really annoying. Almost every link I see on yacf that I want to watch doesn’t work.

New discovery: if I email the link to myself I can watch them on my phone (Android).

Any more things I could try?

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: grams on 07 July, 2020, 06:50:44 pm

Safari > Preferences > Privacy > Manage Website Data > Search "youtube" > Remove

(Unless that's what you mean by clearing caches)

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Attitudeless Badger on 07 July, 2020, 06:53:45 pm

Do you have adblocker extensions running?  I had similar issues with safari and turning off the adblocker let me watch videos.  Chrome worked fine with adblocker in place...

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: ian on 07 July, 2020, 06:55:52 pm

Seems to work on Safari here.

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: IanN on 07 July, 2020, 07:20:36 pm

I've had this recently. Just whitelisted YouTube in Ghostery. Sorted. Thanks

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 07 July, 2020, 08:11:17 pm

By emptying caches, I was doing it via the developer menu.

I have now done it via preferences (thanks grams) and that seems to have done the trick so far!

I see that Youtube is not whitelisted in Ghostery, so I’ll keep that possibility (thanks IanN) on standby in case the problem crops up again - though I have had Ghostery for a long time, well before this problem began.

Fingers crossed.

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 08 July, 2020, 09:49:22 am

I see that this is related to whether I am signed in to Youtube or not. Empty caches - signs me out - things work. Sign in again - can’t view the video.

Whitelisting in Ghostery does not make any difference.

Title: Re: Youtube / Safari problem?
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 10 July, 2020, 08:34:53 am

I think I might have cracked it. Nothing to do with being signed out, or Ghostery, or caches, but a setting I have not had cause to look at before: Safari > Settings for this website > Enable content blockers. This seems to be ticked by default. Unticked it for Youtube and so far this seems to have done the trick.

I have no idea if there are any downsides to taking this step, but it worked even with Ghostery active on Youtube so presumably unwanted stuff will still be blocked.