That seems to consistently allow playback with cookies blocked, without having to reload the page one or more times.īefore I found that addon, I did some testing to figure out what cookies are needed, and what they do. The first thing is that I switched from the addon 'Super Agent' to 'Consent Blocker (formerly Google Consent)'. This is for Firefox, you can maybe do something similar in other browsers. Just following up on this, since I spent some time working on it today.

If it keeps up, I guess I'll try to look into it further when I have more time. I'm finding that the Super Agent addon works most of the time, but sometimes not, and I have to reload the page. That's why I hope it may be fixed eventually, though it's probably not a priority, and they're happy to have lots of people enable cookies in the meantime. In other words it was more of an accident than a planned outcome. My impression is that they changed the consent code for some reason, which had the effect of stopping the video every frame, and either they didn't check or just don't care very much about how it affects browsers with cookies blocked. I would think that if they really planned that blocked cookies would disable YouTube, they would have put up a 'please enable cookies' warning of some sort, and not just have it silently broken. If YouTube detects that you have cookies blocked, it won't pop up the 'Before you continue.' window from the website.

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