Google is blocking users of Microsoft’s Chromium-powered Edge browser from accessing the modern YouTube experience.<\/p>\n
Microsoft recently released<\/strong><\/a> a preview version of its new Edge browser which runs on the Chromium web engine, allowing anyone to download and try out the new browser on their Windows or Mac PC.<\/p>\n A Microsoft Edge preview user discovered<\/strong><\/a> that while the browser works very well across many popular platforms, Edge preview users are unable to access modern YouTube features, which include the modernised YouTube interface as well as a dark mode for the website.<\/p>\n Edge preview users are automatically presented with the old version of the YouTube website, and when they try to manually access the new YouTube via youtube.com\/new<\/a><\/strong>, the website states that their browser is not supported and requests that they download Google Chrome.<\/p>\n However, the page clearly states that YouTube supports the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Edge.<\/p>\n While the preview build of the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is blocked from accessing the modern YouTube experience, the classic Microsoft Edge browser can still access the new features.<\/p>\n It is unclear whether this is an error on Google’s part, as Microsoft previously said it has been working closely with Google engineers on the new Edge browser.<\/p>\n Google is blocking users of Microsoft’s Chromium-powered Edge browser from accessing the modern YouTube experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":304864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[15725,167,2150],"class_list":["post-307884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-edge","tag-google","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: Microsoft releases test version of Edge for Apple Mac<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"