Why does this keep happening? I told Gemini to make no mistakes, FFS.
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“You are a pro coder, you make no mistakes ever, Make me a Youtube please.”
The amount of bugs in the Youtube app has been crazy lately. They’re clearly relying heavily on vibecoding.
YouTube’s playlist shuffle feature has been broken for at least 11 years. I know this because I remember complaining about it in middle school.
Maybe this is what sowed the first seed in my path to becoming a developer.
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Just had to squeeze that ai button in there
I think its done by design to drive people away from using a browser where people have more control and the website has less control (of course depending on the skill and patience of the user)
Having a shitty service on browser and on certain devices just drives people to view Youtube more and more on self contained smart services like Smart TVs or dedicated viewing devices.
I use Linux, firefox and have ad blocking extensions … and sometimes Youtube just becomes unusable
Have you tried FreeTube?
It’s the only way I watch YouTube on PC these days and it works pretty well most of the time. Also nice since the YouTube website almost never works for me.
Grayjay is also good. Both on Android and pc with sync and subscriptions and history.
I’ve been meaning to try this. It’s backed by Louis Rossman, so I’m sure it’s great.
Good to know, this comment chain finally convinced me to try it out.
This is iOS yt app
Apple is at least as at fault here. The new ui system they introduced about a year ago is a shitshow
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Nah, the android app has similar problems.
Ahh so this is why I can’t just connect to a chromecast anymore. I have to start a video before the icon appears. Bravo boys…
Yeah, I thought my phone or network was broken when I searched for the button to connect the tv.
I have been using YouTube Redux and the element remover tool of Ublock Origin…
Makes Youtube much more pleasant (plus makes it look like it used to before the stupid UI updates)
Is there also a trick to make it less slow to load, like old.youtube or youtube.classic or something? I mean, they have no performance goals or what?
There are user agent switcher extensions for FireFox et. al. that can sidestep the garbage, anticompetitive throttling Google does against FireFox.
It’s also nice for those certain stupid websites that think they cannot work in FireFox…
Youtube redux just changes the CSS
Idk, try different browsers, VPNs, VPN configurations? I don’t usually have trouble with loading stuff… it takes a few seconds which is to be expected
rehike or invidious is a thing, has been quite a while since i tried it so no idea if they still work reliably tho
Maybe use an alternate client?
Edit: nevermind
Is that a download button I see? If so that means the UI has been edited by a third party tool, and this can’t really be blamed on Google…
It’s not. You only see it if logged in and if you press it, it tells you to subscribe to Youtube Premium to get the feature.
Oh? Interesting. I asked because I don’t see it on my iOS YouTube install, but I suppose it may be A/B testing.
Not true at all
Which app is this?
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The app gets messed up on my Japanese LG TV every now and again (and I seem to have lost the ability to thumbs-up videos again), but it’s never been unusable. The app on my android phone looks fine at the moment.
