My setup for YouTube on the deck was adding my browser as a non-steam game and letting it open youtube.com/tv in kiosk mode. Worked great for a long time. Today it started giving me a message like “check your device’s app store for the official app” and redirected me to default YouTube.
Anyone else got this problem? Any solutions?
I found the problem, apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified, including “YouTube for TV”. Can’t even install new plugins right now and sometimes having Firefox open just randomly crashes my steamdeck.
apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified
This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.
Yes that fixed it, thank you. Feeling a bit stupid for not having the idea to check for updates myself…
In addition to fixing Firefox, you may need to change the URL to tv.youtube.com
I don’t have YouTube TV anymore, but YouTube.com/tv now redirects me to standard YouTube, while tv.youtube.com takes me to the TV web app.
Got “It looks like you’re outside of the United States. YouTube TV is only available in the US.” after logging in. Didn’t know the US had their own version :D
Huh yeah that’s weird, I didn’t know that either.
I just realized YouTube TV is not the same thing as the YouTube app on Android TV…
FYI it is a good time to move away from firefox given recent events at mozilla.
I have been liking Librewolf which is on the discover app downloader in desktop mode.
edit: Why are people downvoting me?
Don’t know much about this but now I’m curious. What happened to Mozilla and why do you recommend Librewolf as an alternative?
they have been acting sketch af
Not sure what os is in your deck, but can you install FreeTube?
Have you tried manually setting the user agent to Desktop Windows as a workaround?
