I have been unable to watch YouTube videos for a couple of months. There were some people on the Google Forums reporting the same problem, also posting screenshots, but no one seemed to be able to fix it.
Finally, checking with despair my Chrome Dev Tools, I found the problem! In my rush to block ads and avoid the slowing down produced by all the requests to external domains, I ended up redirecting s.ytimg.com to my own PC. Sadly, it seems YouTube is taking some CSSes and other stuff from there, reason why I was unable to watch any video and load the home page with a decent view.
Simply get rid of that row in your hosts file (or wherever you may have blocked it), save, and you are done!
Simpler than this!
I want to thank you. This post save some ours of searching the web.
Youtube is fine in Explore but not in Chrome. I prefer using Chrome because it’s a lot faster. Need Help (Windows 7)
btw my Youtube page looks like this:
http://sta.sh/01z7d0s0ldh6
http://sta.sh/01pchqyf5154
http://sta.sh/0dnynbdbyfb
Yours look way more like a browser problem than a “network” one. Try launching Chrome in safe mode and disable all extensions/themes/plugins.
Have a nice day 🙂
sorry Im not sure how to remove this could some one walk me through the process. thanks.
Sam
Hi Samuel, I guess your problem is that you don’t know how to edit the hosts file. If that’s the case, please see this tutorial 🙂
If you use AdBlock, desactivate it for youtube. I had the same problem today and when I desactivated AdBlock for youtube it working very well.
Thank you so much! The IP in my hosts file was different but still pointed to the DNS name above. Deleted and … ah … youtube is back!
Delighted it fixed your issue! 🙂
That was my problem as well. Thank you for sharing!!!