On: Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Fire...

[buro9]

I found it freezes every 60 seconds, and I just click the "Share" button and "Starting at", and copied the time into the URL and reload the page... then it works.

After a few times I got into the habit of "increment seconds by 60, reload page".

I don't know why it has to be so hard, I seldom to never go to YouTube now because of how badly it works.

Feels super anti-competitive to own YouTube and Chrome, and to punish Firefox users so aggressively.

[xnickb → buro9]

Might as well just download videos and watch them later.

[cholantesh → xnickb]

The one thing you lose I guess is discovery, but the algorithm is so volatile that maybe that's not the worst thing in the world.

[knodi123 → cholantesh]

Yeah, i've used tampermonkey and various other scripts to remove all discovery/suggestions from youtube, and I've never regretted it. It's great. But that's just my personal style, if you sit down and watch it like TV then I can see how that would be a sacrifice.

[cholantesh → knodi123]

I don't, but I like the recommendations on the home screen to find stuff I might like...again though, like 75% of the time, I don't.

[FriedrichN → xnickb]

This is actually what I do most of the time. I feel like that anecdote of RMS where he says he wgets web pages and e-mails them to himself.