{"id":114858,"date":"2020-07-01T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/07\/youtube_doesnt_seem_to_work_in_the_wii_u_browser_anymore"},"modified":"2020-07-01T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T03:15:00","slug":"youtube-doesnt-seem-to-work-in-the-wii-u-browser-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/01\/youtube-doesnt-seem-to-work-in-the-wii-u-browser-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Doesn&#8217;t Seem To Work In The Wii U Browser Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a84c4eeedca31\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a84c4eeedca31\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p class=\"description\">But the app still works<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/79507\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"Liam_Doolan\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"authors last\">by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/Liam_Doolan\">Liam Doolan<\/a> <span class=\"icon icon-time\"><\/span> <span>2 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"YouTube Logo\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03aeb2c107711\/youtube-logo.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 517'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"517\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/03aeb2c107711\/youtube-logo.900x.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Logo\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Another nail has seemingly been driven into the Wii U&#8217;s coffin. According to multiple sources, YouTube no longer supports the system&#8217;s internet browser. For many users, this was the preferred way to view YouTube videos on the system.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you attempt to load a YouTube video within the Wii U browser, you&#8217;ll be presented with some blank boxes. Here&#8217;s how one user over on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wiiu\/comments\/hicy1s\/wii_u_browser_youtube_support_down\/\">Wii U subreddit<\/a> described their own experience:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was trying to use the YouTube browser to watch some videos today, because as everyone knows the YouTube app on the wii u is terrible. When i tried to go and use it all that showed up is a bunch of grey boxes. Even when i change the user agent it does the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, the Wii U YouTube application is still up and running &#8211; so you can always resort to that if you want to continue watching funny cat videos and don&#8217;t have access to any other YouTube compatible devices.<\/p>\n<p>Were you still using your Wii U browser to watch YouTube? Or have you moved across to the Switch? <em>Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/youtube-no-longer-supported-in-wii-u-browser\/\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/youtube-no-longer-supported-in-wii-u-browser\/\">nintendoeverything.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com\/wiiu\/related-info\/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e @ 2020-07-01T05:46:18+01:00 --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the app still works by Liam Doolan 2 hours ago Another nail has seemingly been driven into the Wii U&#8217;s coffin. According to multiple sources, YouTube no longer supports the system&#8217;s internet browser. For many users, this was the preferred way to view YouTube videos on the system. Now, if you attempt to load [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}