Youtube video freezing near the last 30 seconds

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When watching YouTube videos the page and the video freeze up and go unresponsive.

Any video except shorts they work fine and don’t freeze and go unresponsive.

I’ve turned on and off shields same problem either away as well turning off U Block Origin and tried with hardware acceleration off to no avail.

Though the same YouTube videos play just fine on Google Chrome to the end.

On Brave version v1.73.104

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Please edit your Original Post (“OP”) above, to include computing device Operating System.

Tips regarding Brave Shields:

I have more success, with:

  • Brave Shields UP
  • Either Allow All Cookies or Block 3rd Party Cookies, but NOT Blocking All Cookies
  • Allowing JavaScripts from specific sources, but NOT Allowing All JavaScripts
  • Trackers & Ads treatment: Aggressive (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting
  • Fingerprinting (aka footprinting) blocking: Strict (at first), and then incrementally relaxing that setting

I almost NEVER use:

  • All of Brave Shields UP
  • All of Brave Shields DOWN

Study:

Shields Basics

How do I configure global and site-specific Shields settings?

How do I use Shields while browsing?

Maybe hardware / graphics acceleration issue. Two locations where you may throw a switch, experiment:

brave://settings/system

and

brave://flags/ - there, search for “accele” and:

Two switches that might apply:

  • Accelerated 2D canvas
  • Hardware-accelerated video encode