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Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and
always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use Google Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the cache.
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NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use Google Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the cache.

I'm seeing that too (Firefox/Ubuntu/uBlock Origin/not logged in). Reloading the page usually fixes it.

I was also seeing something similar with NewPipe (alternative YT app for Android). A recent update seems to have fixed it. This kind of thing isn't uncommon as they play a cat and mouse game with Google.

Just a normal day in Google-land. They want you to use Chrome, be logged in
so they can track you, and watch their ads.

Theo
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On 14/02/2026 12:06, Theo wrote:

NY <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and
always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use Google
Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the cache.

I'm seeing that too (Firefox/Ubuntu/uBlock Origin/not logged in). Reloading the page usually fixes it.

The problem had gone away by about 10:00 on 12 Feb, though it was still
there when I woke up (about 08:30 on 12). I noticed that downdetector
was showing a large number of reports for the previous day though these
had fallen away to a background level by a time when I was still getting
the fault. For me it was a persistent fault: those sites which failed
did so every time I tried, whether by refreshing the page, closing and reopening Firefox or even rebooting my Windows 10 laptop.

Since then, I've not had any problems.
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On 11/02/2026 21:26, NY wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and >always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use Google >Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the cache.

We had an issue with Google Meet on the weekly virtual pub lunch the last
couple of weeks. One of the group is on Ubuntu and his sound had gone to
hell. Turns out he's a longtime Firefox user who never saw the need to try
Chrome. I think Firefox is having issues with AV from some Google services
at the moment. After I supplied him with the command to download open
source Chromium, all was fine.

So the obvious answer is use a different browser.
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On 16/02/2026 22:36, Jason H wrote:

On 11/02/2026 21:26, NY wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and
always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use
Google Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the
cache.

We had an issue with Google Meet on the weekly virtual pub lunch the last couple of weeks. One of the group is on Ubuntu and his sound had gone to hell. Turns out he's a longtime Firefox user who never saw the need to try Chrome. I think Firefox is having issues with AV from some Google services
at the moment. After I supplied him with the command to download open
source Chromium, all was fine.

So the obvious answer is use a different browser.

Does Chromium support shared bookmarks, saved passwords etc like FF
does? I like the ability to have various computers which all use the
same FF user account, and if I add a bookmark or save a user/password
for a site, that change is immediately picked up by FF on the other
computers.

I'm reluctant to change away from FF which I've used since God was a lad
and which I know inside out.

However I wonder whether recent changes to FF are buggy. A month or so
ago an update has meant that a full-screen browser sometimes loses its
title bar (and hence the all-important minimise/maximise/close buttons. There's a way of incorporating those buttons within the menu bar, but
that looks HORRIBLE and it breaks the standard Windows style of every application having a title bar with the magic three buttons. I have to
toggle F11 a couple of times to force the window to redraw its title
bar. So if they have let that bug through, what else have they done?
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On 2026/2/17 0:25:59, NY wrote:
[]

ago an update has meant that a full-screen browser sometimes loses its
title bar (and hence the all-important minimise/maximise/close buttons.

[]
When that happens, do Alt-spacebar (to get those back). That's been
available since Windows 3.1 or earlier, but lots of people don't know
about it!
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On 2026-02-11 21:26, NY wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use Google Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the cache.

I've been having trouble with YouTube in Firefox 140.7.1esr on Windows
11, while 115.32.1esr on Windows 7 seemed fine.

Symptoms were:

- Various buttons didn't work, so, for example, if I created a queue
then in the player sub-window clicked the max button in the top left
hand corner to maximise it within the browser windows, which should have
moved the address to that of the first video in the queue and started it playing, nothing happened.

- If instead I clicked the thumbnail of the first video that I wanted
to queue, when that tries to load it always stopped about 3/4 of the way
along the progress bar, and I had to refresh the page to get it to load correctly, and then start it playing manually.

- If when the first video page was loaded correctly I then added items
to the queue, the items were added successfully and as each video ended
an attempt would be made to load the next, but it too would stop at
around 3/4 of the progress bar and have to be reloaded to get it to work.

Eventually I noticed that, for YT, somehow I had ended up with different settings for YesScript2 for W7 and W11. Under W7 YS was disabled, 'No blocking', while under W11 it was partially working, 'Half blocking'.
Making the W11 YS settings agree with those for W7, 'No blocking', made everything work again. It shouldn't have happened that the settings
were different, because the W11 build was originally an upgrade of the
W7 build, so how that setting got changed, I have no idea.

BTW, JFTR, I'm also running UBlock Origin, but it wasn't in any way part
of the problem.
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On 16/02/2026 22:36, Jason H wrote:

We had an issue with Google Meet on the weekly virtual pub lunch the last couple of weeks. One of the group is on Ubuntu and his sound had gone to hell. Turns out he's a longtime Firefox user who never saw the need to try Chrome. I think Firefox is having issues with AV from some Google services
at the moment. After I supplied him with the command to download open
source Chromium, all was fine.

So the obvious answer is use a different browser.

This is of course what Google want, and it worked against Internet Explorer.

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On 17/02/2026 00:25, NY wrote:

On 16/02/2026 22:36, Jason H wrote:

On 11/02/2026 21:26, NY wrote:

Has anyone else had problems this evening (11 Feb) playing Youtube
videos and getting the above message?

It happens on some videos but not others: it always fails for some and
always succeeds for others.

It happens when I access Youtube using Firefox but not when I use
Google Chrome. I've tried logging out and back in, and clearing the
cache.

We had an issue with Google Meet on the weekly virtual pub lunch the last
couple of weeks. One of the group is on Ubuntu and his sound had gone to
hell. Turns out he's a longtime Firefox user who never saw the need to try >> Chrome. I think Firefox is having issues with AV from some Google services >> at the moment. After I supplied him with the command to download open
source Chromium, all was fine.

So the obvious answer is use a different browser.

Does Chromium support shared bookmarks, saved passwords etc like FF
does? I like the ability to have various computers which all use the
same FF user account, and if I add a bookmark or save a user/password
for a site, that change is immediately picked up by FF on the other >computers.

I'm reluctant to change away from FF which I've used since God was a lad
and which I know inside out.

However I wonder whether recent changes to FF are buggy. A month or so
ago an update has meant that a full-screen browser sometimes loses its
title bar (and hence the all-important minimise/maximise/close buttons. >There's a way of incorporating those buttons within the menu bar, but
that looks HORRIBLE and it breaks the standard Windows style of every >application having a title bar with the magic three buttons. I have to >toggle F11 a couple of times to force the window to redraw its title
bar. So if they have let that bug through, what else have they done?

Try to think of Firefox as your wife; Chromium as your mistress, for the
things Firefox doesn't do so well.
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