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I was watching The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary tour and I noticed it was loading comments again today after about a month or more of not doing so unless I restarted the browser without addons loading. Shrug.
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Well whatever was blocking ads must have been it. It worked a long time but then the comments stopped working. Now they are back but so are ads every now and then and a lot of those little annoying windows that pop up on videos and you hit the tiny X to close. Annoying but at least comments work. And so does medium window size. It had disappeared too for a while.
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Their ad-blocker blocker must be working then.
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New troubles. I dont care about this one. Just wanted to post it in my string of troubles hehe.

I cant edit my video comments. When I try it sorta just goes into a loop and the edit never gets posted. I basically get around it by copying my original post then deleting it and making a new one with the paste and fixing that one before I post it.
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You edit your posts on Youtube?
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HAHAHA!!!!*maniacal laugh* Now nothing. It is broken. It has the YT logo at top and the legal at bottom but the guts of the pages are blank white. It has the search box but when you search for a video it stays white. Nothing haha....shoots self.
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Working fine for me.
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-- said everyone else.

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Is me too again. But during the outage on my end my wife's was fine.
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And now we're back to my very first original problem. It wont return relevant results. I search for Bush - Glycerine and it gives me covers of it but no real stuff. I search Google and find it instantly then play it and its YouTube lol. Maybe it'll sort out again like last time .Im not bothering.
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Ok Im not sure ive asked this one...seems like maybe I did but who knows.

Is there a way to have YT videos play at a max or certain quality? It is always set to the lowest quality. I either have to full screen it to have it auto change to a better one or I have to do the options then quality settings.
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I'm assuming you've already tried:

Account Settings> Playback> Always choose the best quality for my connection and player size

You've done that, and it still defaults to lowest setting, right?
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Ok first I still couldn't find that area and had to Google it. But yes its already set to use best. But thnx for suggesting it though.
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When it says "Use Best", it doesn't mean the highest resolution - it means the best resolution for your connection. Perhaps it thinks your connection is too slow at certain times and fine at others.
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Ya perhaps...got 60 down and 4 up. Not sure I can fix it then. I did notice the first video I open is max res and fine but if I open more off that then they are at lowest setting.
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You know how in comments people will link a time in the video so you click it and the video goes to that point ? Well ya thats stopped working for me now. I click any time link and it starts the video over from the beginning. Do I care? NOPE.
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Ok. :idea:
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The addition of the time is just "?t=52s" where you in the time after the equal sign. If you wanted to test it out for yourself...
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Well fuck me. Now when I start my browser some random YouTube video starts playing all on it's own. I dont see it...theres no tab...I hear the audio. Every time. Im going to reboot the system and see if that fixes it. But this is just getting strange.

EDIT: Nope full cold boot did not solve it. Now I gotta figure out wtf is going on now.

EDIT2: Found it. Somehow a YT video got pinned in a TINY LITTLE ICON in the top left of my browser's tabs area. Almost never saw it. Unpinned it and it became a full tab and I closed it. Maddening shit.
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What would be the reason for YouTube not buffering my videos? My videos play fine without pauses but you know how you can see the little line fill up ahead of where the playing now part is?..I dont get that any longer so when I want to click forward in the video it will pause and have to load to that part instead of being preloaded.
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I think you and YouTube should see other people/video sites.
It's almost as if people are the problem.
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No doubt :)

Even my tablet takes 15 sec per video to start.
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Daehawk wrote:What would be the reason for YouTube not buffering my videos? My videos play fine without pauses but you know how you can see the little line fill up ahead of where the playing now part is?..I dont get that any longer so when I want to click forward in the video it will pause and have to load to that part instead of being preloaded.
Youtube quit doing full buffering several years ago. Now, it only buffers about two seconds ahead, so if there's a spotty connection anywhere along the line, it'll pause. I've been lucky I guess, as I'll only get a pause maybe once or twice a year. And jumping ahead hasn't caused a problem for me yet for whatever reason I don't know.

Youtube has been working just fine for me overall, but I do use it a lot, so I guess I'd be upset too if I had all the problems you have with it.
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Could my Adblock software be causing a 10 lag for YT videos to start? It all pops up but the video which shows a loading animated icon. Every video takes 10 sec. Then plays fine. My net speed is fine. Ive cleaned my cache and stuff. Im just wondering if maybe AdBlock could be doing this since a ad would usually play for up to 30 sec first. If it comes to watching an ad or waiting at a load screen I see no difference lol.
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I've been getting interruptions lately. Some videos just won't start. I haven't been waiting to see how long before they will. Maybe I'll have to check that. I might be getting the same thing.

But then other times (and sometimes other videos) will play just fine. I haven't been able to notice anything consistent.

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And now its my notifications. In youtube the little bell shows them and I usually click it and a little box opens showing them all. Thats still the same. Whats wrong though is they used to simply show the little post and I could see the exact post that was replied to me . If I wanted I could go to the video. Now though it looks a bit different plus if I click any of the notifications it just goes to the video...shuts down anything I was watching and takes me to the replied video...I dont want to leave my current place I just want it to open in the little notification box like old. Why all of a sudden is it doing this now?

Also when I used to view a notification it would go away. Now they just stay there ...annoying. Going to have this huge list to sort through every day like it is .
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Yeah, that complaint is real. All I can say is double check your settings to limit the ones you don't really want to see.

Also, holding down the CRTL+Clicking on a link will open whatever you want to watch in a new window without closing your current one. I tested it and it works on my notification list.
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My PC stays logged in to YT forever. But the tablet loses its login every time I leave YT and go back. That is also quiet annoying.

Im hoping that like other times if I just give up it will fix itself :P
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Ive ran AdBlocker for years now with zero ads getting through. But today on YouTube Im having a handful of ads play. Anyone else? Whats up?
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No troubles here. But I'm using uBlock Origin.
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I did a couple things and it seems ok again. I updated the file for whats blocked then did a full redownload install of adblock.
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Im running Firefox Quantum now and its back to that old problem I had where sometimes a video will load and play sound but be a black screen window. Every now and then I can solve it by refreshing the tab. Most times though nothing but a full system restart will get that video to run. it seems to happen randomly but there are a hand full of YT'rs that it will do it to their videos more often. Im not sure if theres some encoding they use or some editing app thats not helping. If I load up the built in IE then the video thats just then not working on FF will instantly work fine on IE.
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I have that problem with most of the SNL videos. It was suggested to me that I'm probably blocking the ad at the beginning... or something. And that is screwing up the video playback. I haven't cared enough yet to do any additional research.

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Hmmm could be since I use Adblocker. But no idea why some work fine. in fact most work fine.
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It's possible the one's that don't work fine have ad pre-rolls and the others don't. Pre-rolls aren't all that common.
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Daehawk wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:11 pm Im running Firefox Quantum now and its back to that old problem I had where sometimes a video will load and play sound but be a black screen window. Every now and then I can solve it by refreshing the tab. Most times though nothing but a full system restart will get that video to run. it seems to happen randomly but there are a hand full of YT'rs that it will do it to their videos more often. Im not sure if theres some encoding they use or some editing app thats not helping. If I load up the built in IE then the video thats just then not working on FF will instantly work fine on IE.
Are you running NoScript? The latest version (10.1.3c1) has been making Youtube act wonky for me, and the earlier 10.1.x versions also required some tweaking to get Youtube working properly in FF Quantum.
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Probably not since I dont know what that is and will need to look it up.
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Well is anyone else having trouble loading YT videos? The front page at www.youtube.com loads fine and shows all the videos but if I try to go to one then most dont work. a 500 error pops up. Im guessing its YTs servers problem.
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Daehawk wrote: Mon Apr 02, 2018 4:57 pm Well is anyone else having trouble loading YT videos? The front page at www.youtube.com loads fine and shows all the videos but if I try to go to one then most dont work. a 500 error pops up. Im guessing its YTs servers problem.
I've been playing videos in the background all day without any problems.
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