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Comment by andy_ppp

11 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  10 hours ago

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)

  • dylan604  9 hours ago

    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  10 hours ago

    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.

Synaesthesia  8 hours ago

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.

RGamma  10 hours ago

Do you also get looping search results? I've also had it happen to the simple "videos" tab of a channel.

goku12  9 hours ago

> 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.

ACCount37  10 hours ago

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.