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YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting:
Firefox users have recently started to notice that YouTube does not display videos properly when they enable the browser's anti-fingerprinting technology for better privacy.
When the privacy.resistFingerprinting privacy feature is enabled in Firefox, the feature will make the browser more resistant to fingerprinting scripts.
As fingerprinting can be used to track a user between different properties and even sites, it is a common feature suggested in Firefox privacy hardening guides.
A recent change on YouTube, though, is causing videos to have display problems when this feature is enabled.
[...] BleepingComputer has been able to reproduce this issue in both Firefox 72 and the recently released Firefox 75, so this is not an issue caused by Mozilla.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday April 17 2020, @03:24PM (1 child)
YouTube is so popular you need access to receive information. I use it, I even log in with a Google Account, but it occurs in a separate web browser compared to my normal web life.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @03:39PM
Depends what you are doing and what video lengths are, but if it is something linked/embedded that I want to watch and is short I just use youtube-dl in terminal. Get the video, watch it, delete it. I use noscript in the browser so notice all the silly games they play, and they (youtube) have recently moved to be all script based, i.e. nothing works without js and if you don't have it enabled you just get a blank page (before navigation was possible only playback needed js). Fuck them and their privacy thieving evil ways.