28 points

All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.

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

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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

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16 points

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

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3 points

It also expands when you hover over it

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1 point

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

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0 points

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

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10 points

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

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6 points

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

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

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7 points

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

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2 points

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

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

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4 points

I mean I do get the page

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

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

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3 points

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

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

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Why are you promoting it like it’s one of those scam sites?

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Feel free conduct a cursory search for it on this very platform which will take all of five seconds.

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I don’t know what you mean by this, but you probably misunderstood what I’m trying to say. I know of this tool, and I have been using it for years, but going into a random comment section and posting a link very vaguely related to the original conversation is a thing usually done by scammers, and doing this probably doesn’t help spreading the good word about your favourite project

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