You Tube stalls and Mozilla browsers

My impressions are subjective and not conclusive but I did something different today that seems to have had an immediate impact.

For several weeks now when accessing Youtube the videos would often stall a few seconds (or worse in the middle) into the video. Sometimes the stall would be just a few seconds of duration, other times it would last a half hour or more.

I use Firefox and today found a new add-on to supplement the ad-blocker. It is called 'self destructing cookies' and it is found under cookies when searching add ons.

You will have to whitelist some primary sites (including youtube.com) but it blocks all 3rd party and 2nd party cookies and then after you leave the website destroys the cookies that track you. If you don't whitelist them, some sites won't admit you, but if you have you can access them ok, but no tracking data gets saved.

Anyway, I installed it and after it deleted a bunch of cookies and I told it to let me into youtube, my the you tube videos are no longer stalling. My impression is most of the stalls were caused by the cookies and now I don't have those same cookies interfering with the transmission of the music videos, so it all plays smooth.
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I have unlimited broadband speed so I have no problems ....wave
my computer is not working properly no connection for few days
it does work now i do not know if it will keep going
impossible to upload any videos to utub. from utub. to cs
i do understand the processus you are indicating about the cookies and the whitelist
THANK YOU
i use Firefox with ad-blocker, and a few other privacy protection. dont have any problem.
Same here..have been a Moz man, since Ford came out in black colors. grin
Well been watching a bunch of vids since the OP. On several occasions I see the cooky destroyer killing cookies so no question utube is trying to insert them and my suspicion remains if you experience hangs, check for (or destroy) the cookies.
Ken handshake

with youtube i always clean. there are quite a few sites following or trying. i also CCleaners everyday, besides Malwarebyte, and norton..
Use the broad band and it will run super smooth. handshake
Go ahead and install broadband in this area for me please. Until someone does Cookie Destroyer rules.
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