A compilation of mildly infuriating things about YouTube (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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on the mobile app, comments have links to search for fairly random words within them in YouTube search for no discernable reason
the comment box on mobile shows a preview of a comment, but when clicking on the preview it just goes to the top of the comments and the comment you clicked on is now lost
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
if you have a large amount of subscriptions, it's difficult to navigate through them

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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.

this post was submitted on 21 May 2025

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