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minus-squareattero@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·17 hours agoThis mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account. I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/ logout from google / clear cookies. switch to a new “google” container and login to see your subscrpitions if a video doesn’t load switch to decontained also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites
minus-squareBaroqueInMind@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·16 hours agoThis does not work on phone OSes
minus-squaresugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·16 hours agoI use Grayjay on Android, and it tends to do a good job. I can have subscriptions w/o being logged in to my YT account, and videos load after 5 secs or so every time.
minus-squareBaroqueInMind@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 hours agoThank you. You are the best
This mostly happens when you use youtube while being logged into a google account.
I fixed this by using firefox containers + https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switch-container/
also has the nice benefit of not messing up your reccomendations when clicking on random yt-links from other sites
This does not work on phone OSes
I use Grayjay on Android, and it tends to do a good job. I can have subscriptions w/o being logged in to my YT account, and videos load after 5 secs or so every time.
Thank you. You are the best