Can't Add Comments On YouTube
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Hi.
I'm hoping one of you YouTube wizards might be able to advise me, please, as I've just spent about two hours trying to sort this out with no success.
I've used YouTube for many years but have only just felt the need to add a comment (ask a question) on a video I watched today.
Using my home PC, on which I use Google Chrome, if I click on 'Add a public comment' or 'Reply' to an existing comment it takes me back to the homepage.
I've made sure I'm signed in and that the 'restricted mode' is switched off.
After checking through all the settings, I found in 'Account' under 'Your youtube channel' it states "This is your public presence on YouTube. You need a channel to upload your own videos, comment on videos or create playlists".
Aha, I thought, that's it. but when I click on 'Create a channel' it takes me back to the homepage!
If I try it on my phone it pops up a message saying 'Unknown error'.
Anyone else had this problem before?
Any ideas would be most appreciated, thanks!
I'm hoping one of you YouTube wizards might be able to advise me, please, as I've just spent about two hours trying to sort this out with no success.
I've used YouTube for many years but have only just felt the need to add a comment (ask a question) on a video I watched today.
Using my home PC, on which I use Google Chrome, if I click on 'Add a public comment' or 'Reply' to an existing comment it takes me back to the homepage.
I've made sure I'm signed in and that the 'restricted mode' is switched off.
After checking through all the settings, I found in 'Account' under 'Your youtube channel' it states "This is your public presence on YouTube. You need a channel to upload your own videos, comment on videos or create playlists".
Aha, I thought, that's it. but when I click on 'Create a channel' it takes me back to the homepage!
If I try it on my phone it pops up a message saying 'Unknown error'.
Anyone else had this problem before?
Any ideas would be most appreciated, thanks!
Does it work off your phone outside of incognito mode?
I'm wondering now if there's some disconnect between having a Google account and having a YouTube account (remember how having any one of those things would mean you also had a Google+ account?) That we both knew exactly what I meant by incognito mode leaves me reasonably confident you're using Chrome, so you'd expect it to work flawlessly.
It'll sound daft, but when on YouTube can you attempt to upload a video? Clicking the upload button ought to clarify whether there's some difference between a YouTube account and a Google account. I'm fascinated by this and will probably end up spending my evening trying to figure out where it went wrong. Google has, in the past while, made things complicated without reason, such as attempting to use search in an incognito window.
I'm wondering now if there's some disconnect between having a Google account and having a YouTube account (remember how having any one of those things would mean you also had a Google+ account?) That we both knew exactly what I meant by incognito mode leaves me reasonably confident you're using Chrome, so you'd expect it to work flawlessly.
It'll sound daft, but when on YouTube can you attempt to upload a video? Clicking the upload button ought to clarify whether there's some difference between a YouTube account and a Google account. I'm fascinated by this and will probably end up spending my evening trying to figure out where it went wrong. Google has, in the past while, made things complicated without reason, such as attempting to use search in an incognito window.
No, it doesn't work on my phone at all either.
My Google account is certainly linked to my YouTube account.
I'll be honest, I'd never heard of incognito mode before you mentioned it so I googled it and looked up how to switch it on, ha!
But I am definitely on Chrome.
I can't upload a video because I can't create a channel!
Haha, I don't expect anyone to spend their evening on this, it's not the end of my world, I just thought someone might have come across it before, but thank you.
My Google account is certainly linked to my YouTube account.
I'll be honest, I'd never heard of incognito mode before you mentioned it so I googled it and looked up how to switch it on, ha!
But I am definitely on Chrome.
I can't upload a video because I can't create a channel!
Haha, I don't expect anyone to spend their evening on this, it's not the end of my world, I just thought someone might have come across it before, but thank you.
When you use your phone to try, are you using the YouTube app, or a browser?
Just guessing here that it’s something to do with Chrome, apparently Google have just changed it to try out a new algorithm to do with personalisation of adverts, FLoC or something like that ( an expert here might know). Not every bodies copy of chrome is affected under the trial according to the article I read
Absolute guess though.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/04/10...
Just guessing here that it’s something to do with Chrome, apparently Google have just changed it to try out a new algorithm to do with personalisation of adverts, FLoC or something like that ( an expert here might know). Not every bodies copy of chrome is affected under the trial according to the article I read
Absolute guess though.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/04/10...
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