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YouTube redirects me to a broken youtube page of just one of my channels
If privacy badger is turned on for youtube.com home page, it breaks the home page and redirects me to a broken youtube page of just one of my channels. Thus, I have to either a) not use the yt home page, but just go to my subscriptions page, or b) disable privacy badger for yt home page
I have had this youtube.com error for some months now. If I disable PB for www.youtube.com, the problem goes away. But I would really like to use YT with PB enabled, if possible.
BTW, I am on Linux (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed) with all latest updates. Firefox 73.0.1, with Privacy Badger plug-in version 2020.2.19.
Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide. Thx.
Originally posted by @androclus in https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues/1555#issuecomment-601256676
Hi @androclus, I opened a new issue for your problem, as it sounds pretty different from our usual YouTube reports.
By the way, you should be able to take a screenshot of your popup if your screenshot tool supports a delay.
Hi, @ghostwords, thank you for creating a new issue. Hmm.. at first I thought, wow! but when I tried taking a 4 second delay screenshot with KDE/Spectacle, with my mouse still sitting on the PB drop-down, it just doesn't work. The mouse and drop-down hold there until the actual screenshot is taken. Grrr..
Anyway, it's not that important -- you get the gist of the more important problem. (If I had to, I would just snap a screenshot with phone.) :-)
Thx again
Here are some similar reports I found:
Youtube search function on channels tend to fail when using privacy badger. I frequently get redirected to a page which says the channel does not exist, or simply back to the main home page, no search visible.
Automatic redirection from personal recommendations to a channel.
youtube redirects to unknown channel
Page kept reloading and would not let me select any videos. It kept redirecting back to a specific page and kept refreshing.
Only on youtube. Keeps redirecting my on a rando mchannel. Doesn't happen when I turn privacy badger off.
Infinite redirects to first profile on site
Firefox 67.0.4 (64-bit). Youtube keeps redirecting to the channel home page I subscribed to on a prior visit. It will not allow me to go to the home page or select any videos, it keeps constantly refreshing back to the same page. I disabled privacy badger and it stopped.
All the reports are from Firefox users (no Chrome user agents). There are also only a few reports, relative to the large amount of the usual "video won't play" complaints.