Video playback crashes with user agent spoofing on
Spoofed user agents stop YouTube and other streaming video after about a minute or crash playback.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 22 August 2021 · last reported 2 December 2025
What's going wrong
Several users report that once this User-Agent Switcher is active, YouTube playback stops after roughly half a minute or a minute, shows an error, or crashes outright.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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