• on the mobile app, comments have links to search for fairly random words within them in YouTube search for no discernable reason
  • the comment box on mobile shows a preview of a comment, but when clicking on the preview it just goes to the top of the comments and the comment you clicked on is now lost
  • YouTube search works terribly and is less than 1/3 actual results
  • searching by upload date only shows around a dozen new videos before it completely stops working
  • searching watch history for terms in video titles almost never works, even if there are lots of videos with said title
  • ambient mode distracts from the video itself and looks pretty bad on Firefox
  • the tracking code when sharing links
  • how some videos have different caption formatting and there is no central way to turn it off for good
  • YouTube thumbnails are big now
  • YouTube recommending me a hundred videos on a topic I’m not interested in after I watch two or three videos on said topic
  • hover autoplay on video thumbnails
  • AI summaries in video descriptions, and AI integrations in YouTube Studio
  • The transcript button is now in the description for some reason
  • YouTube pushing mobile games in their homepage
  • Shorts
  • silently adding forced midroll ads
  • the slight gradient in the progress bar
  • there is no way to search a channel’s videos on the mobile app
  • There is no way to turn on All subscription notifications in the mobile app without granting the app notification permissions
  • no more playlists in the sidebar
  • random community posts on the mobile homepage
  • live chat button takes up half the horizontal space of the description for some reason

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Pausing video in the Android YouTube app hasn’t worked properly for me for like 6 months. It will just not respond to me tapping for pause unless I tap it like 25 times, and I’ve seen it on other phones too. If I rotate, it will usually work then.

    Apologies if this doesn’t fall under “mild”