Maybe you remember this from a week or so ago. I know I do.
The problem isn't getting better.
Chrome, still no play the YouTube videos. I don't know why. This *might* be a red herring in this, the stupidest timeline.
It *did* play in Bing. Until recently. No workie now.
I had been using Brave but gave it up for reasons. Reinstalled it and it worked for a bit, but now, no workie with the YouTubie.
So I downloaded Firefox, which I gave up for other reasons. Right now, it seems to be working. But I'm sure it's only a matter of time.
Google can police Google on Google, but it seems odd to police when the user caves and relies on Gen X training and ignores the commercials - sometimes by skipping, I admit - but most of the time by just letting them play unless Google pulls something stupid and puts in an ad that's actually longer than the video I'm watching. I hate that.
I have to wonder: Is Google trying to punish people who used ad blockers, or skip too many ads by disabling YouTube on other browsers? This is the age of Really Really Stupid Illegal Crap Going on Online Because Orange Man is in the White House, so you never know. Maybe they're disabling Chrome for the moment to throw what federales there are still doing their jobs off the scent.
Aww, you were present at the birth of my conspiracy theory.
(Chances are *really* good you get a Liberty Mutual commerical longer than the actual video. That is if you can see anything at all.)
Or maybe not mine. I finally found the right keywords to use on Google itself, and this is what's coming up.
Google: Maybe play more than those damn Liberty Mutual or Geico commercials, and we might not mind all that much. The only LiMu commercial I want to see is the Thanksgiving one where they eat that stupid bird.
I did use AdBlocker on Chrome (and on Firefox, ironically). But I got sick of Google's complaints. So I turned it off. Then uninstalled it. Then uninstalled and reinstalled Chrome. Still doesn't work. So what it means is that for the moment I'm not using a Google product to watch videos on another Google product.
Irony is that YouTube hosts a lot of pirated content and they seem pretty lax on throttling that, but will throttle users who know they're going to get *really* sick of that WalMart clogging shoes commercial really quick.
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