YouTube only showing grey placeholders
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YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Yesterday morning, I was able to view videos on YouTube. By the afternoon, all I was getting were placeholders for the videos. Today, I'm still only seeing the placeholders. Clicking on them does nothing. I can view the videos OK in IE. I'm using SeaMonkey 2.49.5 running in Windows 7 Pro 64b on a Hewlett Packard Compaq 6200 PC. I have this site specific User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 which doesn't help.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to overcome this problem? Thanks.
Regards,
Dave.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to overcome this problem? Thanks.
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
For a short moment I saw gray placeholders only too. But few second later pictures loaded and it looks correct:amrad wrote:Yesterday morning, I was able to view videos on YouTube. By the afternoon, all I was getting were placeholders for the videos. Today, I'm still only seeing the placeholders.
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It was taken on TEST profil with Firefox in UA (default).
Maybe it's something with ad-blockers (extension or 3rd party soft)? Maybe some CSS (stylesheet) is blocked?
My ADB+ blocks these links only on YT website:
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||fonts.googleapis.com^$domain=~[domain_name]
||doubleclick.net^
||ggpht.com^$domain=~google.pl|~[domain_name]
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
@ TPR75,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not using an ad-blocker at the moment and I tried running SeaMonkey in safe mode with no change - still only placeholders. I've also cleared my cache, no difference. Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Dave.
Thanks for your reply. I'm not using an ad-blocker at the moment and I tried running SeaMonkey in safe mode with no change - still only placeholders. I've also cleared my cache, no difference. Any other suggestions?
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Maybe the problem is on the other side (here, youtube). Jut wait it will be corrected at this side.
Does others browsers (Firefox and so on) have same problem? If so, other side is the root cause.
Jean-Charles
Does others browsers (Firefox and so on) have same problem? If so, other side is the root cause.
Jean-Charles
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Hello Jean-Charles,
Thank you for your reply. I don't have Firefox installed so haven't tried it but I can view the videos with Internet Explorer. I hope it does get fixed soon!
Regards,
Dave.
Thank you for your reply. I don't have Firefox installed so haven't tried it but I can view the videos with Internet Explorer. I hope it does get fixed soon!
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Youtube works from her with seamonkey 2.49.5 and ublock origin active (shows 25, no 26; no 27 ; no 30...entities blocked at this time. Seems something is trying something else )
Example of working video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZfEs6phhQ
Link of not working video?
Example of working video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ZfEs6phhQ
Link of not working video?
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Hello Jean-Charles,
No videos work, all I see is the grey place holders for the videos, none of which are clickable.
Regards,
Dave.
No videos work, all I see is the grey place holders for the videos, none of which are clickable.
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Create new profile in SeaMonkey (just for test) and check there if YT works correct.amrad wrote:. I'm not using an ad-blocker at the moment and I tried running SeaMonkey in safe mode with no change - still only placeholders. I've also cleared my cache, no difference. Any other suggestions?
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
@TPR75,
A new profile was the next thing I was going to try, which I have now done and I can see the videos with it! I think YouTube must have changed something because it worked before with my old profile but not not now. I made had no changes to the profile but there must be something incompatible with whatever change YouTube made.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Dave.
A new profile was the next thing I was going to try, which I have now done and I can see the videos with it! I think YouTube must have changed something because it worked before with my old profile but not not now. I made had no changes to the profile but there must be something incompatible with whatever change YouTube made.
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Dave.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Before moving anything to it, I suggest you delete all Youtube cookies on the old profile.amrad wrote: A new profile was the next thing I was going to try, which I have now done and I can see the videos with it!
Youtube has been working OK for me, for ages now.
....oh, while I remember...YT doesn't like Firefox 65 - 72 UA overrides.
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UA override is per domain. Some websites like YT are using more than one domain. Maybe override for these two could help:Frank Lion wrote:....oh, while I remember...YT doesn't like Firefox 65 - 72 UA overrides.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
amrad wrote:Yesterday morning, I was able to view videos on YouTube. By the afternoon, all I was getting were placeholders for the videos. Today, I'm still only seeing the placeholders. Clicking on them does nothing. I can view the videos OK in IE. I'm using SeaMonkey 2.49.5 running in Windows 7 Pro 64b on a Hewlett Packard Compaq 6200 PC. I have this site specific User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0 which doesn't help.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to overcome this problem? Thanks. [...]
- I'm using, SeaMonkey default user agent (custom: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20190804 SeaMonkey/2.49.5) and uBlock Origin 1.16.4.12
With default permissions for cookies (no third-party cookies), allow all images & custom userContent.css
I have no problem viewing videos on YouTube.
Is javascript enabled at YouTube?
However, if I use Firefox 72 as user agent (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0)
this is what happens:
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20240109 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20240324 SeaMonkey/2.53.19
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20240109 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20240324 SeaMonkey/2.53.19
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
I get the placeholders when using NoScript, perhaps something is getting blocked by a legacy profile. Did you try a new profile entirely?
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Except, on this occasion, YouTube made no changes.amrad wrote:I think YouTube must have changed something because it worked before with my old profile but not not now. I made had no changes to the profile but there must be something incompatible with whatever change YouTube made.
It's important that people get this, otherwise it will go into folk law that it's a YT change and they will not bother to fix the problem at their end. A new profile should not be needed in this case to fix this.
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Re: YouTube only showing grey placeholders
Hello Frank,
Regards,
Dave.
In that case, what do I need to do to resolve this problem?Frank Lion wrote:A new profile should not be needed in this case to fix this.
Regards,
Dave.