Doing a quick test (Windows 10, Firefox, NoScript, Privacy Badger) - it seems to work fine for me.
FWIW, I've got NoScript blocking most of the sites that YouTube wants to use js from.
Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox
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#22I 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…
Might as well just download videos and watch them later.
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#23with ublock i never had problems and no ads either
I think I only have problems when there's a chat channel.
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#24They do it every now and then, and then they claim that it is a bug. Yea sure.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I am in the US, I don't think I can report to the European Commission but I did find
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
which I will do right now. Thanks!
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#26Seems to be okay for me on FF 129.0.2 + uBlock Origin, running on Windows 11.
Looking through the Reddit comments, users running older versions of FF may be affected? Seeing a few people commenting that they're seeing this YT issue with v88, 110, 115 ESR and 121.
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#27I have the latest Firefox on Mac OS, and no problems for me. I pay for Youtube Premium, though. I wonder if that makes a difference.
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#28There'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...
If there's something I value, I keep my own copy.
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#29Can 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.
Thank heavens there is https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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#30Google has been degrading YouTube in Firefox for me for about six months. Where are the antitrust enforcers when you need them?
Google may yet be forced to divest from Chrome as a result of the recent judgement.