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p-s-t wrote: ↑

2021-08-08, 11:38

i just registered to post about it and looks like i am not crazy after all.

Moonchild wrote: ↑

2021-07-08, 17:18

I think we had already long since established that this is a generic youtube problem. It's pointless to still make posts now confirming the problem, it's already been confirmed many times over.

app.php/rules#rule-1b

Please kindly read the entire thread before deciding to post.

And take note of this post which has links to YouTube support. Follow those links and read.

p-s-t wrote: ↑

2021-08-08, 11:38

Any chance we could fool it ... and attempt to look like some other browser ?

No.
1. It's already been tried. (Again, read the thread, all of it, before posting.)
2. The built-in SSUAO was specifically chosen to make youtube videos work in Pale Moon. Pretending to be, for example, Chrome will have negative consequences since it will falsely advertise the browser's feature set.

I think I have observed something similar, but it was too sporadic for me (oddly enough) to trace back. I distinctly
remember having replied in the past (back when I was still using youtube + comments that is; after Google's
FLoC sniffing I am done with Google-as-a-service for good) but not all comments showed up. I did not really
investigate but it was strange.

All I can recommend is to watch closely whether this problem shows up again, if so how and where. Perhaps
some comments don't show up instantly for whatever the reason? It's unfortunate when simple commenting
ends up becoming in a semi-ghostly state ... on facebook, back when I was using it, some comments were
insta-flagged as "offensive" or "assumed to be spam". Similar with twitter, back when I was using twitter.

It may be some kind of automatic checking one way or another too. Not that I think this is all the same
reason, but I am pretty certain that code is the main problem. I actually often think it has more to do with
javascript, but I know way too little to really comment much about it excluding the very basics.

shevy wrote: ↑

2021-08-18, 19:15

I think I have observed something similar...
[...]
may be some kind of automatic checking...

Already confirmed by numerous people. Please read the thread before deciding to post.
See rule 1.b.

I just recently have had one comment "disappear" from YT; It was on the CNN Channel, and I basically told them they were an enabler/pusher of some
of the disastrous current events unfolding, and that they had blood on their hands (the short version) That comment is totally gone...Alternately
my comment at "Ocean Conservation Namibia" Channel I can see, and apparently others can because the author "hearted" it (how sweet)

So there is definitely something fishy going on, but then I suppose CNN could have done it too.
In any event I am weaning myself from YT -down to 2 views a week- and soon down to None
I dislike doing this but feel I must, if for nothing else than my own sanity.

Other than that which (described above) the browser is not responsible for, Pale Moon works splendidly in YT
and anyplace else I visit.

Kathuluforz wrote: ↑

2021-08-19, 00:38

the browser is not responsible

Long since well established.

Kathuluforz wrote: ↑

2021-08-19, 00:38

something fishy going on

It's YT's badly busted AI.

Over the past couple of months, this has happened to a huge number of people, many of whom weren't posting anything "political". YouTube "Community Help" has been flooded with complaints (that YT claims they're looking into).

(If in future YT claims to have fixed this AND the bulk of complaints actually dies down, yet your comments still get deleted, that would be the time to reconsider the reasons.)

Please see my previous post.

On "YouTube Help", please see:
- Section of their forum, that filters on "comments";
- "Youtube keeps deleting my comments";
- "Recent Reports of Missing Comments"
(For YouTube Help, you need to use a mainstream browser to see beyond the first page.)

That's fine that YT is looking into this, but for me it has little bearing on my choice to stop using their service, (as I comment @YT very rarely) I have other
beefs with them and until they fix their act that won't change for me.

What is the situation right now?

baylisjae wrote: ↑

2021-08-31, 20:55

What is the situation right now?

The situation for me is that I no longer waste my time composing thoughtful comments for YouTube, since apparently no one else — at least no member of the general public — will ever see them. Curating comments sections to manufacture consent is nothing new; the New York Times has been doing it for at least a couple of decades.

I know it's been over a month, but has the situation improved at all?
I've been trying commenting with MS Edge and it seems to be going smoothly. (I'm afraid to try it with PM for the moment.)
Has anyone had any different experiences?

I tried again a couple days ago and the behavior is the same. Instant deletion (like it was never posted) yet the comment counter increments.

The best place to deal with this might be in the YouTube support thread linked earlier. Annoyingly I can't post there though. WebComponents I think? I forget...

Could that be a mismatch between IP location and timezone, as suggested here?:https://issueexplorer.com/issue/Waterfo ... erfox/2180
Recently, some sites (e.g. LinkedIn) are requiring to solve captchas to prove that I am not a robot, could that behavior be related with the mysterious vanishing of comments? (due comments would be automatic labeled as made by bots 🤖)

MoonWalker wrote: ↑

2021-10-05, 04:31

Could that be a mismatch between IP location and timezone, as suggested here?

The potential reason almost does not matter, since it is definitely Youtube's (Google's) fault, and no other site I ever left a comment on had the same problem.

MoonWalker wrote: ↑

2021-10-05, 04:31

Could that be a mismatch between IP location and timezone

Absolutely not. At least not by itself. If that were the case I shouldn't have any problems and I do.

Update:

I had two fresh comments actually work just now.

Two replies to those comments were deleted immediately, but the original two comments remained. Seems a fresh comment might work sometimes, but replies are still totally borked.

Edit: Hmmm, the second pure comment has been deleted, and only my original comment remains now. C'est la vie.

It seems like the problem is slowly being fixed on my end. Not all fixed, but commenting actually works more often now.

I really hope that's the case for someone, but for me it remains exactly the same.

Every single comment I make on community posts stays up, but those made on videos disappear right away.

moonbat wrote: ↑

2021-06-28, 12:23

I still haven't got over Amazon nuking 20 years worth of IMDb discussions

Many topics have been deleted on IMDb before. The reasons are different. For example, discussions about a popular actor. You go in a year later and compare with Web Archive - there are no old topics. I specifically checked. IMDb discussions were unreliable.

p-s-t wrote: ↑

2021-08-08, 11:38

Any chance we could fool it and make our beloved browser to wear the proverbial sheep clothing

I suggest that the developers of Pale Moon implement all the necessary polyfiles.

artenounx wrote: ↑

2021-10-31, 11:54

I suggest that the developers of Pale Moon implement all the necessary polyfiles.

You mean "polyfills".
Polyfills are js modules that have to be provided by web content, and webmasters should do so if they care about being browser-agnostic. But clearly they aren't... Especially not Google (who own YouTube) who have used it as a platform to push more adoption of Chrome to begin with.
It's not something that can be "implemented" on the browser side.

artenounx wrote: ↑

2021-10-31, 11:54

Many topics have been deleted on IMDb before

I'm referring to the nuking of the entire discussion board system. Individual thread & comment moderation is a feature of forums everywhere.

Moonchild
By the way, once I saw in NoScript on some sites that scripts are loaded from polyfill.io. If all sites did this...
I've already disabled NoScript.

moonbat
And Yahoo Answers have also been killed.
Although, I prefer to block comments and ratings on many sites in uBlock (for example, youtube, imdb). It's hard, I have to make complex rules with nth-ancestor and has-text.