YouTube Oddities

#1

Post by xk3 » Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 9:37 AM UTC

Re: YouTube Oddities

#2

Post by Fr0styMatt88 » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 9:38 PM UTC

Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn’t Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos?

Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can’t even lock my phone when playing a member’s only video.

Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation from Youtube as to why this is, if it’s intentional or a bug, etc.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#3

Post by troupo » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 9:46 PM UTC

> However, it is possible for 249 countries to appear in the allowed list. It's not clear why this happens as it is the same has having no restriction at all. It seems to occur most frequently with music videos, potentially they had actual blocks at one point and the only way it can be undone is to move everything to allowed?

Most likely this is the list sent by the rights holder.

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#4

Post by pomian » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:17 PM UTC

Fr0styMatt88 wrote: post #2

Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn’t Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos? Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can’t even lock my phone when playing a member’s only video. Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation from Youtube as to why this is, if it’s intentional or a bug, etc.

If you can, install an old version of Firefox, and that allows you continue playing the YouTube video, with screen off, etc. (For example 68 esr)

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#5

Post by zb3 » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

Let me recommend this song: https://www.youtube.com/wach

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#6

Post by PetitPrince » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

> Roel Van de Paar, at this current time has 2,035,484 videos uploaded. > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPF-oYb2-xN5FbCXy0167Gg

What the hell. It doesn't seems to be autogenerated video.

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Post by no-dr-onboard » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

This appears to me to be just a compilation of rejected bug bounty reports that were marked as "informational / NA" and are now being disclosed by the author.

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#8

Post by sergiotapia » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

Youtube Movies is such a wonderful product, it's crazy how I can't pay them $10/month and watch whatever I want in their ubiquitous apps. Even the comments come into play when watching a movie, it's fun to read jokes or some detail I missed. Like look, I can quickly watch The 6th Day a perfect Saturday 10AM movie while the kids are about to wake up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw

But because of greed all the content is spread across many many services, each with their own warty app. What a shame!

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#9

Post by GaggiX » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:28 PM UTC

I remember the 666 video by removing c or h from "watch" from the URL of whatever video you were watching. Actually kinda eerie.

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#10

Post by twisteriffic » Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 10:29 PM UTC

Least favourite behavior of YouTube these days is the mass of pimple popping and wart removal videos that show up near the top of search results for damn near anything. "Fluke 87v power on options"? Pimple popping. "Generator repair"? Wart removal. And it isn't just one, it's dozens of them, to the point where there might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are basically gore/grossout videos.

It's still better than when it was constantly recommending the daily wire.