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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 28 points 10 months ago

All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I didn't get this. Anyone care to explain?

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's like a button on top of the video or next to it i'm not aure, but aometimes you click on a video and youhappen to hit that button instead,
Youtube opens some faq page, if you click to go back, the front page has now been refreshed and the video is gone never to be seen again

[–] gzerod200@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

To elaborate, the button is overlayed on the thumbnail of a video, and is reeeaaally big, so it’s super easy to accidentally click it

[–] MissGutsy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It also expands when you hover over it

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

It also doesn't show up until after you hover over the thumbnail.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago

I can not successfully click on the thing everyone is talking about for the life of me.

[–] afk_strats@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Dang. That hasn't happened to me yet, but it sounds infuriating

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 10 months ago

Could make it open in a new tab, at least.

[–] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Oh I guess that wasn't just me being an idiot, this is some kind of systemic idiocy. Nice to know.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I solely open YouTube videos in new tabs can't relate.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

I new-tab basically anything. Faster than having to reload the search page 20 times looking for a solution.

[–] bali10050@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does that stop you from being affected? It's literally an <a> element

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I do get the page

But I don't lose some video I may never find again

[–] bali10050@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Good for you, sometimes I only notice it after watching one or two videos on another tab, and then it's really annoying

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that sucks, but have you ever heard of a thing called the "Back" button?

[–] bali10050@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but it does a refresh for some reason when you use it. And it also makes the thing more painful sometimes, because first the browser uses the cache, shows you the page as you left it, then it does a refresh before anything becomes clickable

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But if you already watched the video then should there not be a link like "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foobar" in your browser history?

[–] bali10050@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

No, it's when I click the thumbnail. It doesn't show up in either the browser or youtube history.