Lately I’ve been noticing a very annoying problem with Youtube videos. Whenever I go to watch one, 90% of the time I get an error message saying it’s no longer available. This even happens if I’m trying to watch the video on the video’s page, which doesn’t make sense at all. I’ve learned that other people have been having the same issue.

I tried to research the problem and from what I can find, it has to do with embedding. Apparently, once a video has been embedded on other websites (and consequently viewed many more times) the video times out and doesn’t want to load.

So far the only solution I know of is to just keep refreshing the page. If you’re watching the video embedded on a site, go to the video’s Youtube URL and try there (again refreshing if you need to). Eventually the video will load, because if the video’s URL is active then the video is available.

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