Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News - eviltoast

Some Firefox users noticed playback issues on YouTube for several months. These affected high resolution videos only, from 1080p and up. To make matters worse, no clear pattern could be identified.

Some videos played fine, others would stop abruptly when they ran out of buffer.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Any you recommend? I tried this during during the first round of YouTube fuckiness on Firefox, and it didn’t seem to make a difference.

    I’m also probably the least techy person on Lemmy, so chances are high that I fucked something up.

    • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      When it all goes down, there’s always the option of just downloading what you want to watch and watch it in your favorite media player. That’s what I do on my phone since I refuse to watch ads and they make everything buffer. Hit the dl button and in under a minute i have the video downloaded in hd.