Everything working fine in Youtube... EXCEPT the video!

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Out of the blue, all youtube videos in Brave stopped loading correctly. Upon clicking on a video, it will play as normal, with a progress bar, pause/play button, audio etc, everything except for the actual video, which displays a white screen. I’m not really into podcasts.

After coming back a few hours later, I discovered that the ability to interact with videos (comment, like, sub etc.) had also mysteriously vanished. What’s going next?

As I said, there was no clear reason for this bug starting, but I have tried a bunch of things to resolve it:
Clearing the cache
Toggling “youtube distractions”
Toggling “brave shields”
Completely reinstalling brave
Praying
None of these worked.

Summary: everything else on youtube works, other than the video meant to be displayed, which is replaced with a white screen

Brave 1.64.109, Chromium 123.0.6312.58

Android 9; Build/PPR1.180610.011

PS: I’ve noticed a couple of other people with similar problems, so its nice to know I’m not alone

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(The audio is playing despite the white screen. The interactions are also missing)

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did you try to lower the resolution to 480? does that work? for me 720p up doesn’t work anymore, as you said, white screen.

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Thanks for the suggestion, but changing the resolution did not resolve the issue

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Really… that’s so bizarre, for me it’s really the 720+ making an issue. Please report it to the devs + play store. They’ll look at it.

I also have made a separate thread about it.

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Can anyone here confirm that they’re still seeing this issue after updating to the latest build of the browser (1.64.113 at the time of writing this)?

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