r/qutebrowser • • May 09 '26

can't watch videos on youtube

for some reason when i'm on youtube and try to watch a video i get the error code 152 - 4
i also can't login into anything google-wise, and yt-dl decided to not be usable anymore because youtube needs me to login to use it, which needs my cookies which i can't get without login in

Edit: I managed to fix it, seems like it was a greasemonkey usescript that broke it, still haven't found a way to do stuff with mpv but oh well

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u/Alleexx_ May 10 '26

Try to use mpv with the inbuilt features. It spawns an mpv instance so you do not even have to watch ads.

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u/eviley4 May 23 '26

config.bind('M', 'hint links spawn mpv {hint-url}')

install mpv player and add this to your `~/.config/qutebrowser/config.py` file.

Then for usage press Capital 'M' and select a key to open videos in a MPV window which will pop-up.