Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox • Hacker News Board

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by miah_ » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

croisillon wrote: post #5

with ublock i never had problems and no ads either

Same it has worked fine for me for ages with Ublock, but this week it has been _bad_. I recently switched to 5g for home internet (i live in the woods), and thought that was the cause. But seeing others complain about it leaves me to believe some Google Manager is upset that people are A. blocking ads, and B. using Firefox.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by graemep » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:07 PM UTC

Works fine for me. Firefox on Linux.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by PaulHoule » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:08 PM UTC

supermatt wrote: post #9

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

Google has been degrading YouTube in Firefox for me for about six months. Where are the antitrust enforcers when you need them?

Have you reported it to them? I have nothing but praise for the EC on the way they have handled the few complaints I have registered regarding such things.

I thought support from Google was "talk to the hand"; all the time I see posts where people got no satisfaction from Google make it to the HN front page.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by squigz » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #13

supermatt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you reported it to them? I have nothing but praise for the EC on the way they have handled the few complaints I have registered regarding such things.

I thought support from Google was "talk to the hand"; all the time I see posts where people got no satisfaction from Google make it to the HN front page.

I'm pretty sure GP was not suggesting reporting it to Google.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by __MatrixMan__ » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

There's a lot of important stuff on YouTube. Google doesn't really feel trustworthy enough to be in charge of it. What options do we have to ensure that people can still access that information or whatever if the degradation gets to a point where it's literally unusable? Is the internet archive sufficient? I feel like I should be participating somehow...

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by miroljub » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

Can confirm.

Google is a new Microsoft, they leverage their position to cross promote their shit browser and their shit data stealing services.

Sorry guys, if your data collection website doesn't work well with Firefox and uBlock Origin, I just won't use it.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by brink » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:10 PM UTC

graemep wrote: post #12

Works fine for me. Firefox on Linux.

No, it happens for me on Linux too. Yesterday it crashed the page on my new laptop.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by buro9 » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

I found it freezes every 60 seconds, and I just click the "Share" button and "Starting at", and copied the time into the URL and reload the page... then it works.

After a few times I got into the habit of "increment seconds by 60, reload page".

I don't know why it has to be so hard, I seldom to never go to YouTube now because of how badly it works.

Feels super anti-competitive to own YouTube and Chrome, and to punish Firefox users so aggressively.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by supermatt » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #13

supermatt wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you reported it to them? I have nothing but praise for the EC on the way they have handled the few complaints I have registered regarding such things.

I thought support from Google was "talk to the hand"; all the time I see posts where people got no satisfaction from Google make it to the HN front page.

I was referring to reporting to the European Commission - an example of the “antitrust enforcers” you were looking for. They need to know of issues to investigate them. The more reports they get the more likely it will be raised for investigation quickly.

Re: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox

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Post by aners_xyz » Wed, Aug 28, 2024, 2:11 PM UTC

eadmund wrote: post #7

YouTube is barely usable on Google’s YouTube app on Google’s Pixel phones running Google’s Android OS at the moment. It used to be that if one were watching one YouTube video and followed a YouTube link to another, that one would be prompted to either enqueue that video or go to it immediately. I used that all the time to enqueue an evening’s worth of videos. Now, each link interrupts the current video and starts pla…

There are significantly less bugs on the IOS version of YouTube which pretty much sums up the whole situation.