I’m so confused

Is this some weird promo? Why is Mr. Beast on literally EVERY SINGLE YouTube channel’s thumbnails? Some of these accounts are staunch Mr. Beast critics, and the contents of the videos have nothing to do with him… is anyone else getting this?

Im seriosuly done with youtube why dont they just get the hint, Literally every single human hates what they are doing with blocking adblockers

And yes I am using Ublock Origin, I also tried Pie's adblocker and that didnt work either

it links to this Troubleshoot YouTube video errors - YouTube Help and puts 2Ccheck-your-extensions-including-ad-blockers at the end

Youtube is purposely making us lag because we have adblockers enabled. They WANT us to disable adblock, and this is their way of doing it since they can not legally ban adblockers.

WAIT UNTIL ADBLOCK AND UBLOCK COME OUT WITH AN UPDATE TO PATCH THIS!!!! IT IS BETTER TO WAIT 10 SECONDS FOR THE VIDEO TO LOAD THAN 30 SECONDS FOR A NON-SKIPPABLE AD TO FINISH PLAYING!!!

DO NOT GIVE IN AND LET YOUTUBE WIN. I WOULD RATHER SHOVE A CACTUS UP MY ARSE THAN GIVE A DIME TO GREEDY CORPORATE COMPANIES

Edit: I am not addressing the elephant in the room

Been happening for a few months where random unrelated videos appear on my feed or when I'm searching mostly with under 10,000 views but this one is over. And no I didn't even hover over it or anything I've never seen this before. It's not with the thumbnail. I checked my search history and it's not there. I'm not getting hacked etc. Not sure if it's a glitch or something but I assume it is

I love how we’re all gathering here

And does anyone know how tf they made these videos?

I tried refreshing, opening videos in new tabs, even resetting my browser. Nothing seems to work.

That is no way- I don't know if YouTube already removed it, but we need to do something about this... Original post: https://x.com/nealmohan/status/1940025421376233913

r/UnderstandYouTube

Getting an error page here.

Edit: Looks like it might be a more widespread Google outage than just YouTube.

Edit: Shout-out to /u/internetrulez for messaging me this. The site appears to be working when using incognito or private mode. Perhaps the issue stems from accounts/sessions.

Edit: Back in the UK!

I pay for not showing me this bullshit

Update 3: A month after disabling SRV3 upload, YouTube has now officially re-enabled it! They updated the support page accordingly and even seem to have restored the subtitles that they previously pulled down. In short, everything should be back to normal.

Update 2: Good news, everyone! After a few days of silence, YouTube has now announced that the subtitle disappearances "should be temporary for almost all videos." They also linked to a support page where they'll post further updates.

Update: YouTube has now started randomly deleting SRV3 subtitles from existing videos. It looks like disabling uploads was not an accident, but the start of a crackdown on... the creative work of passionate fans and professional translators. God knows why they're doing this.

If you have a video with styled subtitles that you particularly like, I would recommend backing it up locally before the subs are gone: use yt-dlp with the options --write-subs --sub-langs all --sub-format=srv3 and optionally --skip-download to download the subtitles only (without the video). The resulting .srv3 subtitle file can then be played locally in mpv.net, along with the YouTube video (using File -> Open URL).

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TLDR: YouTube has a hidden subtitle file format called "SRV3". It's much more powerful than the officially supported formats, but since today or yesterday, it can no longer be uploaded to videos. This is a real shame, and I hope it can be restored.

More in-depth information follows for those who are interested.

SRV3? What's that?

If you want to add manually-created subtitles to a video, you have two options: enter them in the online subtitle editor that's built into YouTube Studio, or upload a file. YouTube supports a good number of file formats with varying capabilities: bold, italic, sometimes even color.

What's less known, however, is that it also accepts a proprietary format called "SRV3" (also known in the community as "YTT"). It's similar to TTML, and it used to be YouTube's internal, unified format for sending subtitles to the video player. (They switched to "JSON3" a few years back, but SRV3 kept working for uploads.)

This hidden format has a wealth of styling options, most of which aren't possible with any of the officially supported ones:

• Bold/italic/underline
• Custom colors and transparency for both the text and the background box
• Outlines and drop shadows
• Alternative fonts and font sizes
• Precise positioning anywhere on the video
• Vertical text and ruby text for Asian languages

Were people even using it?

SRV3 isn't officially documented and thus pretty obscure. However, it does get used in the wild, with the most well-known example being hololive. This is a VTuber group with videos reaching tens of millions, sometimes over a hundred million views.

All officially translated hololive videos (which is a lot) use SRV3 to achieve beautiful, unique subtitles that wouldn't be possible otherwise.

And if you're not a fan of VTubers: Tom Scott is also known to have used the format.

So what happened?

SRV3 was discovered back in 2018, and people have been using it ever since. YouTube made a handful of changes over the years, mainly adding bugs that required extra workarounds... But mostly they left it alone, and the format kept on working.

That is, until today. If you now upload an SRV3 file to YouTube Studio and hit Publish, nothing appears on the video at all. The newer JSON3 is sadly not an alternative: it gets straight up rejected as being unrecognized.

After 8 years, YouTube has - intentionally or not - put an end to the best subtitle format they ever had.

Please restore SRV3 uploads

It would be a true shame to permanently lose access to this format.

Sure, it's not officially supported or even documented, and no doubt, we were never meant to use it in the first place. And sure, subtitle authors could switch to a supported format... But it just wouldn't be the same.

SRV3 is simply too good to ignore.

In an ideal world, it would be made public and fully supported. However, I think I can speak for all SRV3 subtitlers - and their many viewers - when I say: we'd already be more than happy if we could just go back to it working at all.

Thank you for reading this far, and I hope this can get YouTube's attention.

uBlock origin is currently getting detected by YouTube and caused multiple people including myself to see this message whenever loading into any video, how sweet.

If you want to watch videos without seeing this, you have 3 options available right now;

- Watch 3 unskippable 30 second ads whenever clicking into a video, extra one being hidden after them and 1 minute long as a cherry on top of your nerves.
- Wait for uBlock to update or reinstall it, after reinstalling and clicking into another video it might not work again, but i recommend doing it anyway because it's just what i had, you can get lucky with it to work perfectly again.
- Download AdGuard and disable uBlock for YouTube, it's a good alternative which isn't detectable (as of right now, it might get changed in the future).

Bonus; Youtube announced it's gonna stop playing videos in the background some time ago, and for those who just discovered this or don't know how to counter this, i recommend also downloading "Disable Page Visibility API" plugin and only allowing it to be functional on YouTube.

I usually click the like button on almost every video of the channels I'm subscribed to, so I noticed this quickly. Obviously, the new UI has been a like button in this spot for a few weeks now (at least), but today I spotted this weird glitch where apparently YouTube is only letting me dislike the video instead of like it? Is this a bug or is YouTube doing this for no real reason as usual?

On my web browser (google chrome) Everytime I open a video or short it says "This content isn't available, try again later.". The video starts working when I restart the browser but I have to keep doing it on every video I try to watch. Wierdly enough, this problem only appears on specifically on my chrome account. Same youtube account on my phone doesn't have this problem, nor another youtube account on the same chrome account or another chrome account. This problem appeared out of nowhere yesterday. Can someone please help me, I will answer further questions.