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Help YouTube thumbnail playlist is gray
- Thread starter AdiA
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nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Grey boxes = skeleton load. That happens to me if I try using Safari on Mac, FireFox on Linux or Windows. YouTube has gotten to the point it really loves and prefers you to use Chrome and nothing else.
AdiA
Member
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Try visiting m.youtube.com in a web browser and see if it works, at least until they 'fix' their app? I haven't used the app since like 2014.
AdiA
Member
You haven't used YouTube on a phone since 2014?
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
Not the app, nope. I just use m.youtube.com in a browser. That way I'm not forced to constantly update the app all the time. Also keeps the Google account off my phone. You do know you can use adblock in Samsung's browser, right?
The app no longer works on older Android versions anyway so on my SII I have to use the website. In fact it draws the site to mirror the UX of the phone and I quite like it. You should see what m.youtube.com looks like on an HTC G1!
The app no longer works on older Android versions anyway so on my SII I have to use the website. In fact it draws the site to mirror the UX of the phone and I quite like it. You should see what m.youtube.com looks like on an HTC G1!
nickdalzell
Extreme Android User
as of a month or so ago, my Note 10.1 from 2012 now only loads m.youtube.com in Chrome, despite it being one year older than the Samsung browser built-into it.. the Samsung browser skeleton loads now. I think whenever the thumbnails went rounded corner UX it broke the browser since it apparently fails at drawing them and gets into a javascript error loop in the background. If i go to Google on Samsung's browser and search for specific content under 'videos' it will load the video itself and even play it, but the rest of the site is still stuck skeleton loading, with blank icons everywhere, the player UX also not drawing the rounded corners even if it otherwise works, and pausing the video won't allow resuming, as audio continues but video is frozen at that point. the scrubber bar is also MIA.
Chrome version 24, from literally October of 2013, still works with m.youtube.com, and draws the exact same layout as Samsung internet once did, albeit with the rounded corners. Either they blacklisted Samsung Internet because it's not Chrome and because it's an otherwise AOSP-based browser, or the rounded corner UX broke it. But the fact that even the oldest Chrome version for Android, literally the first version APK works fine, leads me to believe the former.
Chrome version 24, from literally October of 2013, still works with m.youtube.com, and draws the exact same layout as Samsung internet once did, albeit with the rounded corners. Either they blacklisted Samsung Internet because it's not Chrome and because it's an otherwise AOSP-based browser, or the rounded corner UX broke it. But the fact that even the oldest Chrome version for Android, literally the first version APK works fine, leads me to believe the former.