Does it also happen when you disable all plugins? Happened for me when I had a plugin running to bring back downvotes.
I’m 95% sure it’s a combination of Linux + Firefox + uBlock Origin and YouTube is trying to make me get rid of all three of those. Not gonna happen.I mean, I could try disabling uBlock Origin, but either way I don’t get to see content, so what’s the point? 🥲
I have ff and ublock on windows and every now and then YouTube videos have issues like stopping playing and not recovering (where an ad would play).Only fix is to hard refresh the page.
Another one with Linux + FF + uB-O here, and I also don't have problems with Youtube.But they broke uB-O recently, maybe you need to upgrade it.
I would use Newpipe. On mobile you can get it from F-droid and on desktop you can use Waydroid if you are on Linux.Just a side note but I would use there F-droid repo over F-droid main
This is why I use freetube.