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[Rant] Flash requires cookies to save volume settings

Recently there has been a change to the way Flash plays back videos. If you block flash cookies the player will default to no sound and you will have to manually move the volume control up each time you play a video. You must accept a flash cookie from s.ytimg.com in order to maintain the volume level you selected or else it will always revert to silence each time you open a new video.

Has anyone else noticed this? It seems to be a fairly recent change.

Yes! i was waiting to see if anyone was going to bring it up, but on multiple operating systems I've noticed this. If you kill the flash settings/history, and cookies the volume is muted by default now. At least on Youtube.

I was wondering what was going on. Thanks for the post

I'm not seeing anything no problems here.

You have to actually clear your flash cookies, if you don't do that you won't see it. /sigh

Whatever.

I clear them in my browser so they are cleared on opening, and exit. it's not a big deal, just a minor annoyance. It's either a bug, or done to annoy those who throw off their marketing tracking.

I been wonder why the audio is always muted on Youtube for me now. Thanks for the info!

Actually, after looking at all my browser settings, and flash settings, I dont see where I have anything blocked.

So, what is the trick to get the volume back to normal?

Thanks
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Really interesting! I use Linux only and have had Flash cookies blocked from writing to my system since day one. I use YouTube every day and have never noticed any audio problems. Are you all on Windows?

So, how did it work before?

Thanks...got it working now

Yup, win7 here

Blocked? Block them, and every loading of a youtube video is muted by default. I just clear them when opening, and closing the browser.

I've saw the problem on linux first actually, it doesn't matter what os you're running it's a website, it's flash.

BltzenZeus - I also had the problem in Linux (with Firefox). Thanks for posting the link in [FireFox] Videos muted by default.