If YouTube can be classified as social media, I’m in the right place; otherwise, I don’t know where to put this. It’s a bit of a rant.
A couple of times a month, while watching a YouTube video, I’ll get a frozen video with the big white circling band, and a popup from YouTube/(Google) asking me if I want to know why it’s slow. Well, for one thing, it’s not “slow”, it’s frozen. ‘They’ blame it on my ISP being too slow/overloaded and/or not using Chrome.
It happened again just a few minutes ago, and I immediately opened another Firefox tab and ran TestMy.net. 532.9Mbps download, 21.8Mbps upload. Then I ran fusionconnect.com and got 564.4Mbps download, 24.0Mbps upload. I’ve done this a number of times, with very similar results.
To get rid of the white circling band, I just close Firefox and relaunch, and I won’t get the YouTube/(Google) freeze again for a couple of weeks or so. It has never been my ISP. I get the feeling YouTube/(Google) is just targeting my Firefox browser.