YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
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YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
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#2I thought it was only me, but when I went to update the app I saw that the most recent reviews all describe serious UI bugs and have thousands of likes.
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#4Youtube is pretty much a monopoly at this point. It has no significant competition. So they can afford to have plenty of bugs and indeed their fight against general purpose computation and preventing people from watching youtube outside of their prescribed web applications and smartphone apps has lead to the introduction of many bugs even in the browser.
I used to use youtube in a browser because it just worked. It had lots of nice features compared to youtube-dl/yt-dlp. But since they've worked so hard to prevent the use of such tools even my browser based youtube is regularly freezing the video for ~5-10 second periods many times during a play now (on multiple computers/firefox, via multiple IPs).
Youtube tightening their grip has made the youtube.com website so bad that yt-dlp is now actually a better experience. Rather than just an awkward way to preserve things.
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#5I just wish they hadn't killed Invidious :(
There seems to be no way anymore to keep a public instance working.
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#6I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device.
This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.
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#7I've noticed minor UI bugs on iOS as well. When you skip an ad playing in landscape mode it will restore the video stream into the upper left corner. You need to leave and re-enter fullscreen to fix it. Not the worst bug but it's been around for a few weeks and is a surprising issue for such a common event on a major platform from one of the world's richest companies.
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#8I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.
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Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#9I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.
And ad blocking!
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#10I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.
Bold of you to risk your Google account by accessing it through a patched client... No amount of complaining on HN will bring it back when Google decides to banhammer all people who break their TOS in such a stupid way.