Youtube really pissing me off these days
I am so sick of the myriad of insanely annoying things youtube does these days.
* Making the default embed have no fullscreen option, so most embedded videos these days are unable to be fullscreened unless you go to Youtube. Is this trying to force people to their site? Nasty
* Buffering issues. I don't know what's going on, but every few videos I'll get one that just refuses to download quickly, to the point where I give up trying to watch it as it appears like it's going to take half an hour to download (and yet most start up instantly and have no issues)
* Their INSANELY annoying resolution switching when you go from normal size to fullscreen... I HATE this. Start playing a video, think 'this is good, I'll watch it fullscreen', have it stop buffering what it was doing, throw away that and switch to 480p and start buffering again. THEN, I've even had it switch BACK to lower res if I go back out of fullscreen. (In fact I'm having this issue RIGHT NOW, trying to watch the Adam Savage video, each time I change from full screen to not or back, it stops, changes the res from 480-360 or 360-480 and rebuffers, even if it's loaded the entire damn video already.... DAMN it youtube, give me the option to have videos ALWAYS load at 480... just LET ME! I'll switch manually to HD if I want to see it real purty like, but just let it load at 480 and stop this constant reloading rubbish)
* I have a dual monitor setup here at work, and I like to sometimes have a video playing in one monitor while I code on the other. It seems like it's just recently changed that I can't do that, because if I click anywhere on my second monitor it makes the youtube video drop out of fullscreen.
All round ARRRRGH youtube, fricken ARRRRGH. You are making watching videos an intense pain in the butt.
* Making the default embed have no fullscreen option, so most embedded videos these days are unable to be fullscreened unless you go to Youtube. Is this trying to force people to their site? Nasty
* Buffering issues. I don't know what's going on, but every few videos I'll get one that just refuses to download quickly, to the point where I give up trying to watch it as it appears like it's going to take half an hour to download (and yet most start up instantly and have no issues)
* Their INSANELY annoying resolution switching when you go from normal size to fullscreen... I HATE this. Start playing a video, think 'this is good, I'll watch it fullscreen', have it stop buffering what it was doing, throw away that and switch to 480p and start buffering again. THEN, I've even had it switch BACK to lower res if I go back out of fullscreen. (In fact I'm having this issue RIGHT NOW, trying to watch the Adam Savage video, each time I change from full screen to not or back, it stops, changes the res from 480-360 or 360-480 and rebuffers, even if it's loaded the entire damn video already.... DAMN it youtube, give me the option to have videos ALWAYS load at 480... just LET ME! I'll switch manually to HD if I want to see it real purty like, but just let it load at 480 and stop this constant reloading rubbish)
* I have a dual monitor setup here at work, and I like to sometimes have a video playing in one monitor while I code on the other. It seems like it's just recently changed that I can't do that, because if I click anywhere on my second monitor it makes the youtube video drop out of fullscreen.
All round ARRRRGH youtube, fricken ARRRRGH. You are making watching videos an intense pain in the butt.
14 Comments
ZifnabNice rant, I would agree with you on all points. Very annoying...
halfAcatOh god, the resolution switching is SO annoying! If you specifically click on the desired resolution before switching to fullscreen it should "lock" into that resolution permanently for that video, at least that works for me...
RhesusMonkI tried to contact the Tubers regarding points 1-3 EXACTLY about three weeks ago. No response whatsoever.
lurgeeI totally agree. This shit pisses me off.
kymbosI'm getting the video sticking while the audio continues fine, then the video skips to catch up. On short vids you can miss the key bits.
shits me to tears.
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
I concur completely - especially the auto-resolution change. It's like the hired the programmers for Microsoft Bob. Stop trying to be helpful and just serve the video.
Perhaps it's an opportunity for a company to launch an alternative "stripped down" video service, kind of like DuckDuckGo is doing for Google search.
probieNoticed the resolution switching in the last week or so. It is annoying. What gives, YouTube??
kymbosI understood about 15% of that.>> ^dag:
I concur completely - especially the auto-resolution change. It's like the hired the programmers for Microsoft Bob. Stop trying to be helpful and just serve the video.
Perhaps it's an opportunity for a company to launch an alternative "stripped down" video service, kind of like DuckDuckGo is doing for Google search.
xxovercastxxHmm...
I never use full screen because I've only got the one monitor and don't want to stop doing other things to watch a video, so maybe I just haven't been paying attention, but I just looked at a few vids and they all had the button for me. Could this be some weird regional thing?
I've had serious buffering issues for a few weeks now, to the point where I've had to pause even <1min videos and let them load for a while before I could watch them. Lucky for me, this problem has gone away this week. Odd to see it's just starting for you.
Again, I don't use full screen so I don't really see the resolution switching thing, but why not just take it off auto? Click the gear and click the resolution you want and it should stay there.
RyjkyjGoddamn their completely free service!
antI noticed YouTube videos take longer to start buffering. Ugh!
notarobot>> ^Ryjkyj:
Goddamn their completely free service!
Yet somehow their completely free service has gone downhill. Like everything else, they don't make 'em like they used to.
spoco2>> ^Ryjkyj:
Goddamn their completely free service!
Yeah, because it's not like they're making millions, no siree.
RyjkyjWell, Dag and Lucky are raking in the millions and look how crappy their site is!!!
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