Can't view videos now!

[poli-junkie]

How come when I attempt to view a poster’s video, I get a message that I must be logged in to view (I’m already logged in), and then there’s a link “Learn More” (which I select). Then the imbedded video disappears!

What’s going on?!!

TIA.

[hlthe2b]

1. You need to provide a link to one or more videos that you can't view... n/t

[EarlG]

2. This is happening in a YouTube video, I assume?

I haven't seen this myself, but it sounds like the video you're talking about might be restricted on YouTube in some way. Sometimes when that happens you need to actually visit YouTube -- and sometimes sign in to YouTube -- to see the video. It won't just play normally on DU.

When you're being asked to sign in, it doesn't mean sign in to DU. Any text that you see in a YouTube video is generated by YouTube, not DU.

Can you provide a link to the problem video?

[poli-junkie]

3. Yes it's a YouTube video.

Can’t find one now. Thanks for your help 🤓

[TheBlackAdder]

4. OK, YouTube hack.

Create a pinned link to the following path and empty it out every day. Once the directory gets above 30K files, YouTube starts its signin process. By clearing it out daily, you don't need to register and pay for an account.


C:🍆Users🍆pc name🍆AppData🍆Local🍆Mozilla🍆Firefox🍆Profiles🍆????????.default-????????????🍆cache2🍆entries


The above works for Firefox. Not sure where the entries folder is in other browsers. Used 🍆 instead of blackslash.


I think you can also clear your cache and restart Firefox, but this allows you to clear it out without restarting your browser.

[poli-junkie]

5. Thanks!

[TheBlackAdder]

6. Actually, pc name should be changed to the account you are signed onto Windows with.

Oh, I think once you hit the signon state, you might need to log out of YouTube and restart your browser to reset everything.

[duncang]

7. There's been a few other posts on this.

Most common thing is it’s on a iPhone. Is that what you’re using? If so it seems to be a cache problem. On mine I saw I had an update show and immediately did that. I think during the update it cleared my cache.

Clearing the cache might also work on other browsers

[poli-junkie]

8. Yes iPhone. Ok will do thanks!