| ▲ | andy_ppp 18 hours ago |
| The YouTube web app is so full of bugs it's almost unusable on a phone. Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms... |
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| ▲ | sussmannbaka 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I can only navigate to a video by long-pressing, copying the URL and pasting it into the URL bar, otherwise I get a meaningless "something went wrong" type error message. Mobile Safari, no content blockers, not logged into a Google account. After almost two decades of making the website worse they finally succeeded in breaking "clicking a video". I wonder what the hotshots at Alphabet manage to break next :o) |
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| ▲ | dylan604 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | This was happening to me browsing in FF with uBO. It would work as soon as I disabled uBO. I realized uBO needed an update, and it went back to working with uBO active after the update. For a couple of hours I was ready to never use YT again if it meant suffering their obnoxious interruptions with ads. | |
| ▲ | Barbing 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Works dandily here. Suspicion: they’ve fingerprinted me hard and know I have premium but like to watch occasionally from Safari private (with content blockers) and don’t hassle me. Mainly suspect this given lack of anti-adblocking symptoms. |
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| ▲ | Synaesthesia 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I only use the web app on my phone (via Firefox). It works well enough and I can play videos in the background and block ads. |
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| ▲ | RGamma 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you also get looping search results? I've also had it happen to the simple "videos" tab of a channel. |
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| ▲ | goku12 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > Comments also disappear regularly on all platforms... I don't believe that that's a bug. The disappearance depends a lot on the topic of those comments. It's very much deliberate censorship. |
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| ▲ | kllrnohj 17 hours ago | parent [-] | | > It's very much deliberate censorship. Also known as "moderation" | | |
| ▲ | goku12 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | That 'moderation' is in the same spirit as 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' at Guantanamo Bay, 'Administrative Segregation' in US prisons or Russia's 'Special military operations' in Ukraine. Tomayto, tomahto. Disclaimer: To anybody getting ready to be offended by these references, don't be selectively blind to the word 'spirit' above. If you still can't make it out, I'm obviously referring to euphemisms here and no additional equivalences are implied. Anything else you attribute to my statement reflects your own views and is your own responsibility. It's such a shame that I have to explain such basic facts with a disclaimer that's longer than the comment itself. But the reality is that some people are so sensitive that they insist on imposing their version political correctness to not just implied speech, but also to unimplied speech, language and even thought, while totally disregarding others' cultural perspectives. I leave this here just in case I have to explain my intentions to someone again. |
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| ▲ | ACCount37 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And the YouTube web interface is full of issues too. For example, livestreams had transient memory leaks for months already, thought to be related to their chat implementation. In the meanwhile, YouTube spends its effort on measures against yt-dlp, which don't actually stop yt-dlp. What the fuck is wrong with Google corporate as of late. |
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| ▲ | mring33621 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | dumb middle management driven by dumb metrics a very old story... | |
| ▲ | hbbio 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > livestreams had transient memory leaks for months already maybe it's vibe coded nowadays |
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| ▲ | neuroelectron 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Google is having a hard time conforming to their own javascript standards. |
