dddave Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 I like playing YT music videos, sometimes more than an hour in duration while I do other things. Recently, YT has begun pausing the video after about 45 minutes, no explanation. This on both my LR & BR TV's. Anybody else experiencing this? Did I accidently activate some hidden setting? Just plain You Tube. I don't subscribe to any of the paid versions. I do use an ad-blocker. They recently announced new anti ad-blocker measures. Perhaps connected to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furioso Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 YouTube will pause a video if you haven't interacted with it, usually around 45 minutes. I use 4K downloader to download YouTube videos to my harddrive, then play from there using either PotPlayer or VLC media player. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoner Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 30 minutes ago, dddave said: I like playing YT music videos, sometimes more than an hour in duration while I do other things. Recently, YT has begun pausing the video after about 45 minutes, no explanation. This on both my LR & BR TV's. Anybody else experiencing this? Did I accidently activate some hidden setting? Just plain You Tube. I don't subscribe to any of the paid versions. I do use an ad-blocker. They recently announced new anti ad-blocker measures. Perhaps connected to that. 45 min ? most times i get 20 minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 Yes it's started to do that for me ,but not all the time , what I don't like is when I open Youtube page ,it always say you are offline , when i am obviously not, so i have to clear the browser cache and reload the page and its OK , they will be trying to get more people to go for the paid version....... regards worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaccha Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 I have a great workaround for this for mobile YouTube on my phone. I use my smartwatch which is connected to my phone and has the ability to override the play function on the YouTube app without removing the prompt question, ensuring no further prompts/ interruptions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dddave Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 11 hours ago, worgeordie said: when I open Youtube page ,it always say you are offline , when i am obviously not, I have never had this happen on You Tube. I've had it happen on other sites but never consistently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enoon Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 (edited) On 7/8/2023 at 11:58 AM, dddave said: I like playing YT music videos, sometimes more than an hour in duration while I do other things. Recently, YT has begun pausing the video after about 45 minutes, no explanation. This on both my LR & BR TV's. Anybody else experiencing this? Did I accidently activate some hidden setting? Just plain You Tube. I don't subscribe to any of the paid versions. I do use an ad-blocker. They recently announced new anti ad-blocker measures. Perhaps connected to that. One of these might fix it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autotube-youtube-nonstop/egobelhdffdoidcnhpgkngoghpiebial https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-nonstop/ I'm not sure which of the two I should be using. I keep forgetting to give it a go......maybe I'll do it today: Edited July 10, 2023 by Enoon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkok Barry Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 7/8/2023 at 6:21 PM, Furioso said: YouTube will pause a video if you haven't interacted with it, usually around 45 minutes. I use 4K downloader to download YouTube videos to my harddrive, then play from there using either PotPlayer or VLC media player. Yes. I always download any YT videos I want to watch, several a day, and transfer to a usb and play on my tv. There are several programmes to do that - Convert Youtube, YouTube downloader, savefrom dot net etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caldera Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 They've certainly taken annoying their users to a whole new level lately. I'll finally switch to using a downloader too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrJ2U Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 7/8/2023 at 5:58 PM, dddave said: Perhaps connected to that. You should receive a warning first. It's like 3 strikes and your booted off. Perhaps try uninstalling the app and reinstall it and clearing the cache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterphil Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Use a VPN and set it to Albania. It will stop everything including adverts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutt Daeng Posted July 11, 2023 Share Posted July 11, 2023 14 hours ago, Enoon said: One of these might fix it. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autotube-youtube-nonstop/egobelhdffdoidcnhpgkngoghpiebial https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-nonstop/ I'm not sure which of the two I should be using. I keep forgetting to give it a go......maybe I'll do it today: Thanks @Enoon. I'll have a look at the FF addon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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