A compilation of mildly infuriating things about YouTube

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

on the mobile app, comments have links to search for fairly random words within them in YouTube search
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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zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You can fix at least half of those complaints on mobile with Revanced. I specifically removed all possibilities to view shorts because the flesh is weak and YT shorts ate hours of my day at a time. Without even being particularly entertaining.

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- EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I don’t use Revanced, but using a mobile browser in desktop mode has produced good results for me.
  
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- Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  My toddler enjoys the shorts. Unfortunately my algorithm is well and truly humped now and it keeps showing me variations of sprunky
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If you’re still sharing a single account between multiple users in 2025, that’s kinda on you TBH.
    
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datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You forgot the sex bots that comment on every single new video that YouTube has decided to ignore

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CircuitSpells@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
there is no way to search a channel’s videos on the mobile app

It is baffling to me that they just… never implemented this? Like why???

I’ll add that everything about playlists is really dumb, which is a shame because they could be good. Why not treat playlists the way streaming services treat tv shows? Remember which episode I was on, and make it easy to find on the homepage with a “continue watching” option.

Also, the “watch later” playlist is a good idea but why don’t the videos automatically remove themselves after I’ve watched them? Why doesn’t the watch later playlist appear at the top of the suggested videos or something? Instead it’s hidden in a jumbled mess of playlists that I have to manually find. OH AND ALSO WHY ARE MY CUSTOM PLAYLISTS INTERMIXED WITH OTHER PLAYLISTS I’VE SAVED.

And the progress bar gradient is so ugly jfc. It’s one of those things that screams bored middle management decision making. And from a branding perspective, when has YouTube ever been off-pink? I know it’s minor but genuinely how did that slip through the cracks.
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grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s no easy way to “mark video as watched” so that Youtube stops pushing it in your feed. (You can mark it “not interested” or “don’t recommend channel,” but those aren’t the same thing.) Even if you aren’t doing something Google would consider naughty like watching via FreeTube, NewPipe, or yt-dlp sometimes, there are legitimate cases like watching while logged-out or having a friend show you a video on their device that cause you to have seen a video without that watch getting recorded into your watch history.

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RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I hate that people is tamed by the “Community Guidelines”.

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