Infinite refresh loop on MacOS 12.6.1 - Safari 16.1

[lothar-cell]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducable on the official hosted instance or is API related.

Describe the bug

• After a couple of seconds, piped.video enters in a refresh loop. Deleting website data helps only for like 10 seconds, disabling content blocker doesn't help.
• On Firefox the site works fine.
• Issue started when site moved from kavin.rocks to piped.video.
• Issue is very similar to this, but deleting website data doesn't help: Refresh Loop on iOS/iPadOS #1210

To Reproduce

1. Open piped.video in Safari
2. Use the site as you would normally
3. Observe issue

Screen.Recording.2022-11-23.at.9.10.23.mov

Expected behavior

Normal website behaviour is expected.

Logs/Errors

Let me know how to do it if applicable.

Browser, and OS with Version.

Safari 16.1 - MacOS Monterey 12.6.1

Additional context

Maybe the issue is related to cookies/caches?

[goodness-from-me]

+1 same problem on MacOS 13.0.1. Also experiencing this on my iPad with iPadOS 16.1

[valynor]

Can this please get some priority?
As it is right now it does not work at all on iPadOS and desktop Safari. It's broken for about 2 weeks now :(

[FireMasterK]

Is there any way to reproduce this issue consistently? I only have access to BrowserStack, and I can't reproduce it there.

[lothar-cell]

A virtual machine maybe?

[lothar-cell]

Any progress on this? I started to use https://piped.mha.fi, but it doesn't work on all videos and also missed some key features.

[privacytime101]

@lothar-cell Can you check what's displayed in the browser console please? Thanks.

[lothar-cell]

The loop seems to be gone now, but videos don't play.

[lothar-cell]

The site works now, thank you guys!

[lothar-cell]

Alright, it started doing the same thing again, just now.

UPDATE: false alarm, after I opened the console it got back to normal.

[lothar-cell]

Actually, the problem still persists. Interesting is, if I bring the console up, the loop stops, but doesn't buffer.

[lothar-cell]

Any progress in this?

[lothar-cell]

Since I enabled CSS Custom Properties and Values API and WebRTC H256 codec, in Develop/Experimental Features, the problem is gone. At least I believe these were the options. Can anyone confirm this?

[R8s6]

@lothar-cell may I ask how exactly do you enable those two features? I might be having a similar issue and would like to try out your solution. Thanks a lot!

[lothar-cell]

In Safari Preferences - Advanced, tick Show Develop Menu
In Develop menu - Experimental features, there are these options, among a lot of others

[R8s6]

@lothar-cell Thanks! my problem is with iOS, especially with live streams or videos that just ended live streaming (within an hour-ish) and became "regular", recorded videos.

i tried these settings, and they did not seem to make a difference on iOS, but thanks anyways!

[lima46zulu]

I have the same issue on Brave (iOS). Sometimes it works but more often than not I get the infinite loop both for the feed and the video page.

[warnerbryce]

I got the same problem on iOS 17.1 and 16.X 😥
I live in Europe so next year i will have the right to have a browser that won’t use WebKit and the right to sideload any app without having to reinstall it every 7 days.

[lothar-cell]

I gave up on Piped, it has issues constantly, Invidious likewise. I started using YouTube with HTML5 player, SponsorBlock, Dearrow and Improve YouTube - works well. And for subscribtions I use FreeTube.

[styfrombrest]

Issue is still remains on macOS Sonoma 14.5 and Safari 17.5, I get the infinite loop both for the feed and the video page from the start. Very frustrating.