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.

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