Anyone else having to spam F5 to get youtube videos to load?

[Red Squirrel]

Been like that for a few weeks at least it seems. When loading a video it just stays black. Have to hit refresh a bunch of times before it finally loads. Anyone else having this issue?

 

[deustroop]

Been like that for a few weeks at least it seems. When loading a video it just stays black. Have to hit refresh a bunch of times before it finally loads. Anyone else having this issue?

Ok here ( Toronto) . Got an example ?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Seems to be very random, right now it's working fine, but other times it's not. Will do it to pretty much all videos.

 

[TwiceOver]

I had this problem. After I turned off my adblocker it worked every time. Seems like they might finally be trying to do something about ad blockers.

 

[Pulsar]

Yes. Same problem. Trying the adblock thing now.

And confirmed. Youtube is making you wait if you're running an adblocker.

 

[JackBurton]

Same thing with me. Really irritating.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm sucks, so they're really going to try to pull off a forbes it seems. Though TBH I'm surprised they don't just embed ads right into videos while it's processing.

If they really do end up forcing ads I imagine it won't be long until there is an extension that lets you "preload" a bunch of videos at once in the background or something.

 

[Skunk-Works]

It's probably Flash. Try the YouTube All HTML5 addon for Firefox or the Greasemonkey script ViewTube.

 

[deustroop]

Same thing with me. Really irritating.

I use AB and got no issues loading YT videos.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I have never experienced this issue and I am using uBlock/Origin.