FWIW I noticed this bug as well, I often listen to longform videos on youtube and it was very obvious something changed when you pull up half-finished videos it suddenly started skipping back when it didn't previously.
I view Google as too big of a faceless machine to bother investigating myself, but I'm happy someone did.
Didn’t use “retarded” four times then? Not sure if that or using Chrome was worse, but now onto the cool stuff:
Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP): neat!
20 seconds: that’s a while. Prefer it reduced to 0sec or instead maybe 1-3 seconds? Have noticed YouTube might replay a few seconds when switching from app to browser. Sometimes it’s too long and seems like a bug, other times it seems like they might’ve been accounting for the moment of distraction while opening the browser and closing the app. (I know this seems unlikely. Perhaps it felt inspired by iOS which now seemingly intelligently replays a second of a podcast that was interrupted by a call or something.)
PS: does the Android app make you tap like four times to switch to max quality even when you’re on WiFi and told the app years ago to use high quality? (Jerks!) …and yeah Google is doing (actually more than) a reasonably good job with many aspects of YouTube (zero downtime, instant loads).
IronWolve•5h ago
weird-eye-issue•1h ago
I think you probably have another plug-in that was blocking the headers from being sent in the first place... Or maybe some sort of browser setting