YouTube White

UPDATE, Sept. 14.

The Windows update  I forced a few days ago only solved the problem temporarily.

My next attemtp to fix was to reset all of my Chrome settings to factory specs. That included removing any vestige of Chrome extensions.

That, so far, has worked.

But you know, if one Google service (Chrome) was interfering with the display of another Google service (YouTube) something tells me things are a mite confused down Weinberger Way.I'm seeing a lot of this on YouTube lately.

I had to discover this (maybe) fix on my own, as no one is as of yet talking about this as a recent problem. Walt Bernbaum, get with the program.

About an hour later: Nope, not working. Dumping Chrome for now and using Brave. We'll see if that fixes it.

My video plays, but part of the way through -- sometimes after I skip an ad -- the screen goes white. I get audio, but no video. And it's like that through the rest of the session, including the ads.

No one seems to know what's going on.

I asked my techie friends on Facebook, and they suggested a few things, and they worked for a bit, but then I'd be back to the white screen with audio.

Googling the problem brought up similar things from several years ago, but nothing current.

I do know my desktop computer is ancient, isn't eligible to be upgraded to Windows 11 -- but the intermittent nature of the problem is odd to me. I'm watching a YouTube video right now, and it's all fine and dandy.

It's hard to think it's not something nefarious from Google. They were irked when I had AdBlocker. I used a private brower for a while but that meant giving up having my subscriptions front and center, because signing in meant Google knew I was using a private browser and got upset all over again.