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Lately I’ve been hearing “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available” an awful lot. Every time I’d try to check out a video on YouTube, there it was staring me right in the face. I’d never had this problem before, but I just assumed it was the death knell of all things fun on YouTube. After all, enough lawsuits and ownership changes have curbed most of the appeal the site originally offered anyways. Maybe it was just a sorry state of affairs and time to move on to other video sites. For the past week or so, that’s what I did.

Then I lucked out and stumbled across a great bit of information — the problem wasn’t with YouTube, but with me! Ok — maybe it was with YouTube, but the problem was something they’ve changed on their end recently that didn’t jive too well with the set up on my PC. You see, I’m a big fan of Google Web Accelerator — yes yes, I know. They’ll steal my name and sell my blood, but still. It makes things faster, and I was built for speed ladies. But for some reason Google Web Accelerator and YouTube aren’t playing nice anymore.

Here’s the fix; simply clicking “don’t accelerate this website” doesn’t fix it. You need to click “Stop Google Web Accelerator” and shut it down completely. To be honest, until this is fixed I think GWA is going to be more trouble than it’s worth, so I’ll probably just leave it disabled.

If any of you have been having this problem, you’re welcome.