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    is youtube broken or is it just me?

    Lately, about half of youtube won't play. Seems worse on the "monetized" vids. Ads play, then the spinning wheel forever. Tried various browsers on old school windows and mac computers (terrible), ipads (better), an older android tablet (much better), and an android phone (best, but not 100%).

    Is this a flash vs html5 thing?

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    Sounds like an issue connecting to the content delivery network (Akamai Networks in this case). Are you using your isp's dns servers or are you using opendns or google dns? Plenty of good reasons for any of those, but your local dns usually provides the best cdn performance.
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    I've been having the exact same issue.

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    Mac chrome and firefox on two different machines. I haven't had any issues.
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    youtubing merrily along here.

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    On work PC it wants to download latest Flash player to show viddys and of course me not administrator. Works sometimes others no.

    Usually get a message about security certificate errors, if I hit show content it mostly works.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pisteoff View Post
    Lately, about half of youtube won't play. Seems worse on the "monetized" vids. Ads play, then the spinning wheel forever. Tried various browsers on old school windows and mac computers (terrible), ipads (better), an older android tablet (much better), and an android phone (best, but not 100%).

    Is this a flash vs html5 thing?
    Maybe they're censoring midget porn.
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    Fwiw, the Psy/Snoop Dogg video loaded fine this morning. Hope that helps!

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    Works here on MBP with chrome.

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    Not having problems at the moment, but when I HAVE had the same issues I always found it highly suspect how they can somehow manage to get the ads to play flawlessly no matter what. Hulu sometimes has the same issue. Same with Southparkstudios. They'll get 3 ads in a row to play without issue, but then the main video supposedly can't play? Mmmhmm...

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    It was working weird for me over the weekend. I'd have to hit refresh a bunch and then it would play without even pausing to buffer. They were probably working on something and figured it was a good time to do it since only losers like me rage the yout00b on a Saturday night.
    No longer stuck.

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    Just an uneducated guess.

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    Quote Originally Posted by irul&ublo View Post
    Maybe they're censoring midget porn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw View Post
    Sounds like an issue connecting to the content delivery network (Akamai Networks in this case). Are you using your isp's dns servers or are you using opendns or google dns? Plenty of good reasons for any of those, but your local dns usually provides the best cdn performance.
    This would definitely explain it. At home I'm using my isp's dns servers, and my phone is always on its 4g network (seldom use wifi). The other devices are a mix of my company's internet, airports, hotels, coffee shops, etc.

    I'll try open or google public when i get a chance. Thanks.

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