For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:
- This only affects some users, not everyone
- The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
- The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
- It affects all videos
- The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
- There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
- It affects Premium users too
edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify
Imagine being a paying Premium member and still get caught by this… That said, the YouTube comments are worth shit, so not much is lost there. The descriptions can be quite annoying when missing.
I really should start looking into yt-dlp or something. Anybody know if that’s still working fine these days?
One thing is certain: Your distro’s repository’s version of yt-dlp - even on bleeding edge distros - is likely out of date, and you’ll have to find and run the appimage version from the devs.
You can just pass the
--updateflag when invoking yt-dlp. I don’t think the package itself needs to be up to date in order to work reliably.That only works if yt-dlp was installed as a standalone binary or via pip. If it was installed from a distro repository, the self-update mechanism is intentionally disabled because the package manager controls the version. In that case --update does nothing : /
I mirror my yt channel that feeds my family to peertube for my viewers. No one watches it, but I’ll keep trying.
uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.
Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT
“No way around it” always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.
Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite
Love to see it
