[Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube

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[Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube

My setup for YouTube on the deck was adding my browser as a non-steam game and letting it open youtube.com/tv in kiosk mode. Worked great for a long time. Today it started giving me a message like "check your device's app store for the official app" and redirected me to default YouTube.

Anyone else got this problem? Any solutions?

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Batadon

lemm.ee

I found the problem, apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can't be verified, including "YouTube for TV". Can't even install new plugins right now and sometimes having Firefox open just randomly crashes my steamdeck.

drspod reply

lemmy.ml

apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified

This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.

Batadon reply

lemm.ee

Yes that fixed it, thank you. Feeling a bit stupid for not having the idea to check for updates myself...

Fubarberry reply

sopuli.xyz

In addition to fixing Firefox, you may need to change the URL to tv.youtube.com

I don't have YouTube TV anymore, but YouTube.com/tv now redirects me to standard YouTube, while tv.youtube.com takes me to the TV web app.

Batadon reply

lemm.ee

Got "It looks like you're outside of the United States. YouTube TV is only available in the US." after logging in. Didn't know the US had their own version :D

Fubarberry reply

sopuli.xyz

Huh yeah that's weird, I didn't know that either.