Just press repeat a few times and it works.
The extent of the problem seems to be progressing. The retry button worked for me for the most part at first but then by the next day had stopped working at all. Interestingly though, I discovered that loading the video in portrait mode first, hitting the play button and waiting for it to actually begin playing before going landscape seems to work. Don’t get why that makes a difference.
Im having similar issues with grayjay, freetube and newpipe. Non of them are working atm. Youtube is going downhill faster than it already was.
@Shape4985 @biancotitanio For me just pressing retry a few times fixes it. But maybe that’s just a/b testing and it will stop working completely in a few days :/
This time they started blocking both residential IP addresses and VPNs to discourage yt-dlp, NewPipe etc. From what I noticed, you need to use official website to load cookies and maintain that session to continue watching videos. It’s irritating. I hope they fuck themselves and go out of business.
But if they are blocking residential IPs, how can I watch my Video on normal youtube? Or are the just gonna fuck everyone because a few people are using things such as newpipe?
@PullPantsUnsworn same. May 2025 be the year of collapse for Big Tech.
Refreshing a couple times does the job until next patch comes out
I just got an ad today on youtube.com despite using uBO (also froze the browser for a few moments)
