Browser Timeout: "This Screen will be closed."

[VGMoose]

The 20 minute timer on this website is just for your own information on how long it's been. The actual 20 minutes for the browser to close and kick you out is enforced by the Switch OS.

We started a petition to Nintendo asking them to remove these limitations, although it seems unlikely at this point in the Switch's lifecycle that they'd do this.

[pusheen]

in 2017 in the browser it didn't close

[VGMoose]

yeah, they added the timeout around 2019, likely as a result of DNS workarounds to accessing it. It also used to support video for the first few Switch OS releases.

[pusheen]

danm

[switchuser12]

has anyone tried ethernet? also i found that airplane mode expanded my time. is this statically correct?

[dafunkymonke]

I dont see how that would effect anything, its a built in timer. i know that putting the switch into rest can essentially pause the timer but ill have to try airplane mode

[jperez2250]

i cant watch videos it says that feature is resricted. any help?

[A Former User]

@jperez2250 Nintendo has restricted the viewing of videos on the dns browser, i'd assume to discourage people from using it. There's also a 20 minute timer that'll kick you off every time it gets to 0. If you'd like to know some sites that work, check my first topic and another topic titled 'switch discoveries part 2'. I hope it helps :D

[jperez2250]

please find a workaround for the videos i would really apreciate that. i have looked around an here and its pretty fun.

[A Former User]

@jperez2250 You can watch any videos on facebok using a trick i found, you need to acess facebook from the "social network posting settings" on your switch

[dafunkymonke]

@jperez2250 big dawg think we customer support if you want to see videos go though facebook or settle for GIF's, otherwise there hasnt been any workarounds for years

[VGMoose]

Sadly as others pointed out, the DNS browser explicitly has video playback blocked. There are some workarounds for Facebook and Google Drive, but the access is really limited.

[THE_ONlY_0NE]

is there any way to play videos on here that doesn'tto involve homebrewing my switch?

[ㅤㅤㅤ]

@THE_ONlY_0NE theres is one way, but it only makes it possible to watch vids on facebook and the method takes quite a few steps, im not sure if its worth it but u could try it out for yourself, there was a topic about that, its called "switch discoveries volume 3" by @Luna

[reddeath670]

hey users i really liked this idea of having it on the swicth i can do so much but i really hate the timer on it thats the thing that sucks hope they can fix that. would be cool

[reddeath670]

@daniel-johnson hey had that problem too keep pushing the a button on the swicth it might play but their will be no sound

[7SidedCube]

Hey! I just wanted to say, exiting and re-entering the browser resets the timer!

[Alastor fan]

I think I stoped the timer on my switch. Don't know how all I know is that I was on nitendo news then whent on the web thing for a bit shut of my switch and whent back to where the timer was and it said 0:00 and it still has not kicked me off.

[Alastor fan]

my timer stoped and it says 0:00 but I'm still on google it did not kick me off

[Ria]

@VGMoose I keep managing to bypass it, but it is random, so what happens is that I keep turning it off and then when I reopen it, it stays on for ages and I cant really predict when it is going to happen tho