YouTube

Huh. What To Watch no longer shows individual suggestion, but rather suggests only channels, most of which are entirely irrelevant to my interests.

No, it still has a section were it recommends individual videos. It's Recommendations. You may need to scroll down a bit to get past the channel suggestions. That happens all the time, sometimes it's on top before the channel suggestions, sometimes it's further down.

Those labels seem like they'd make more sense if they were switched, "recommending" you a channel and giving you a new video for "what to watch."

Huh. Mine doesn't show up when scrolling down, but I did a quick Google and I can still get there through this link.

You know how when you're watching a video with a particular song, at the bottom of the description of some videos there's a little thing that tells you what song it is?

Like with most things on YouTube, it's an automated script. And recently I've noticed that Skrillex songs confuse the hell out of it, because I keep running into videos with them mislabeled (sometimes as a different Skrillex song, sometimes as a song from a completely different artist). It's kind of funny, really.

edited 2nd Jun '15 11:01:33 AM by TotemicHero

A kind of funny story about that thing, I was going through the Shenmue soundtrack, and YT identified some of the songs as tracks from this album instead.

I often see Beatles songs credited to Beatles tribute bands, which is weird.

Due to security exploits in Flash, Firefox automatically blocks it until it's fixed.

How do i watch Youtube videos now? XD

Unless I'm mistaken, You Tube defaults to using HTML 5 for its videos nowadays, so you'll be fine on that front.

It's not just Youtube. AOL and other sites are blocking it in the same situation.

Updating flash should fix it, assuming it's the same flaw that was discovered because of the Hacking Team hack.

... Hacking Team....

Is the hacking group's name actually Hacking Team?

.... oh it's a hack. I was under the impression I just had to update.

Yes. Hacking Team got hacked, exposing various information about them. One of which was related to a security hole in Flash.

Yeah, updating won't fix it. There's news on it here.

http://gizmodo.com/firefox-now-blocks-flash-by-default-1717664482

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/firefox-blacklists-flash-player-due-to-unpatched-0-day-vulnerabilities/

http://www.cnet.com/news/gone-in-a-flash-facebook-says-adobes-plug-in-is-a-security-risk-no-longer-worth-taking/

http://news.sky.com/story/1518735/facebook-and-firefox-try-to-ko-flash-plugin

All I can say is, either wait for Adobe to release a new patch, or just use another browser.

HTML 5 works great! It's so much faster and doesn't use a lot of resources! I just didn't know how to activate it XD

(You go here) https://www.youtube.com/html5

I feel bad to all those people who depend on Flash for their jobs though.

Huh, I guess there's another exploit out there for the newest version of flash.

EDIT: The newest version does fix the vulnerabilities, but Firefox may still block it.

edited 14th Jul '15 3:22:57 PM by strawberryflavored

I got the newest version of Flash that fixes things ^^ Now I cna watch videos AND play flash games again XD

How come the only Quality settings available that we can choose now are 360 and 720? What happened to 1080? And 480?

Which player are you using, and how new is the video? Sometimes new videos take a while to be processed for higher quality.

I haven't looked into this in any great depth, but I've found that the HTML 5 player seems to lack certain resolutions, even when the Flash player provides them for a given video. It's the main reason that I've stuck with the Flash version, I believe: On my connection, 480p is my resolution of choice (in most cases), as it seems to be the highest resolution that streams without pausing to buffer. I'd rather not drop down to 360p for the sake of the HTML 5 player, nor switch to 720p and likely end up waiting for every video to buffer. :/

edited 19th Jul '15 9:32:02 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

I've been using the HTML 5 player for a while now, and haven't had issues with that. Though, I remember that at one point I had to use the flash player since Firefox didn't fully support things yet. That may be the issue you have.