Post #2334838
2026-04-25 10:22 UTC
Wellp, I'm half switching from Brave to Firefox. Youtube is being really annoying with Brave. Some videos don't play and will outright freeze the page. Firefox with UBlock Origin works perfectly. Also... I am skeptical that this is purely an ad-blocking issue, since the same thing is also happening with Microsoft Edge, which has no ad blocks in place. In fact, it has more than once played an ad, then tried to play the video and frozen.
*sigh* What ever happened to the world I grew up in, when shit was generally stable and breakage was not a normal part of daily life? Yes I know I'm being stupid about this, we never lived in that world. But still. My point is, that as much as I love technology and wouldn't choose to live without it most days, I am finding it increasingly more frustrating how many ways things can break and how often they do so. At best we can just fight an ever-steeper uphill battle to hold things together. It just gets really old sometimes.
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@musicalman@dragonscave.space 2026-04-29 22:39
Update on my Youtube issues: Youtube seems to have fixed something on their end. I haven't experienced freezes today, even on videos that used to give me trouble. So yeah, I'm cautiously celebrating, or something. Lol
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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space 2026-04-25 15:58
@musicalman@dragonscave.space Started seeing this in edge recently too, occasionally youtube likes to put out an update to their web app that just breaks it on a browser, it was firefox the first time but now it's edge.