Ask HN: Are YouTube Comments Working?

21 points by danuker ↗ HN
I see that there are YouTube comments (i.e. 757 Comments), but I don't see them, only the text box to enter a new one.

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Same here. It seems like it's trying to load them though, showing the spinning indicator.
In addition to YouTube comments, I can't load Google Photos conversations with people I've shared photos to or activity on shared albums.
Same. Have you looked at client vs server? I'm on FF on Linux.
Same here. They seem to load now.
Just half hour ago, comments on videos cannot be seen.
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Are these errors regional or general? Are there cases where applications such as youtube run services in different versions depending on the region?
Loading progress...then no actual comments shown.

FF on Linux.

Ok in FF on Android.

I disabled uBlock and they started showing up again.
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YouTube comments have been broken for me for a while now (a year or two) on Firefox with uBlock. I see the comments list and avatars, but no text. I don't mind it enough to disable uBlock.
I think this is intentional behavior on Google’s part, to disincentivize use of ad blockers.
Man I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

I'm on a bottom bin Android device right now, and chalked it up to the instability of the device fucking something up again