
I had YouTube lie to me many times these past few days. I will click on a link to watch a video and a screen will load that says “Your Browser is unable to play this video” and then there is a link below it. When I click on that link for more info it says that I have to use Chrome, Edge, or something else. If I press reload, the video plays just fine.
YouTube is lying. If refreshing the video fixes the issue, then this was just a random thing they were doing that didn’t cause problems at all. I think it is because I am using Brave and blocking their ads, so they think they will get me to switch to something that helps track me better. I don’t think so, buddy.
It could also be because I am using OpenSuse Linux or just Linux in general. They may be throwing up some additional incompatibility to make it painful for people to continue. As I said before, when YouTube is a pain, I will drop it and do something else. There isn’t any content on YouTube that I need that I can’t find somewhere else. Some other sources like DailyMotion have videos that YouTube doesn’t have.
Google is being deceitful here in many ways. They have a Chrome OS which says that you can work completely in the browser and then on a platform they control, they are making it so you can’t work in a browser. Does that sound fair to you? Google says they will do no evil, but time has shown that is marketing and not reality isn’t it?
YouTube is the last Google thing that I use. I am slowly transitioning away from it and exploring other alternatives. What is easy for us to do is not always what is helpful.