Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad. While that’s certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time. A simple workaround for the black screen on YouTube is to just refresh the page, hit F5 as soon as the page starts loading. uBlock Origin’s filters were updated with a patch to resolve the problem, the add-on updates its filters automatically. If you are still experiencing the black screen issue, just open the extension’s dashboard and manually update the filters. This tug-of-war is getting annoying, but it appears to me that Google’s efforts are actively promoting the use of ad blockers, instead of attracting new subscribers.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Piped apps have been broken at least 6 - 8 times in the past couple of weeks.

    It’s the biggest Google effort I’ve seen to crack down on 3rd party YT clients.

    I actually used to pay for YT premium, then they removed my discount AND raised the price to over $12/mo.

    Sometimes I do miss my algorithm feed, just not enough to watch YT ads, or pay $12 - 15/mo.