YouTube videos pause after 1 second of playback on the latest update
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@DoctorG I only have Vivaldi anti-tracking enable. It shouldn't cause issues like this, though?
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@xuvvy YouTube is blocking access to videos for those using ad-blockers.
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@Pesala I have no issue accessing videos. Specifically since the latest Vivaldi update and not before the video that I play pauses after 0.5-1 second, then when I resume it, it plays normally. But every new video opened behaves like that.
That doesn't seem like anything is being blocked, especially when I have Vivaldi blocking disabled, too.
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Do you have autoplay blocked? check vivaldi://settings/privacy/
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It's youtube doing that, it did few days ago also for me and I'm still on snapshot 6.4.3160.33;
Today it never did it to me but I have already refreshed uBlock Origins "Quick fixes" which gets updated multiple times a day to countermeasure YT aggressive anti-adblock measures. -
Okay, so I have Autoplay, Sound and similar allowed.
Nonetheless, the issue seems to have fixed itself for me. I disabled tracker blocking, then it started working normally, I re-enabled tracker blocking in Vivaldi and it's still working normally now.
Weird. Could be just a coincidence, too.
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Well, I called it too soon. It seems to have started happening again. Not sure what's the culprit, but any 'fix' seems to be temporary, or not a 'fix' at all.
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Yep, I went around messing with extensions and it was uBlock Origin.
Specifically, what was happening was YouTube was detecting an ad-blocker and displaying the anti-adblock message. But due to uBlock Origin's cosmetic filter, this message is hidden... so instead of having the video paused and seeing the message from YouTube, you are just having the video paused.
But this has since been fixed, yes.
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Although I have no problems with ads and nags on YT, with the Vivaldi blocker + a userscript that I installed as an extension, I already use more and more alternatives to YT, front-ends and desktop clients, which offer me videos in better quality, faster and without garbage and tracking.
Front-ends
Desktop
If necessary, there are also other solutions.
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@LeoDicoolio I've disabled uBlock Origin, I've reset its settings (it's an option in uBlock Origin settings), restarted my browser fully, enabled uBlock Origin again and it worked.
