I didn’t get this. Anyone care to explain?
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 day
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 againDang. That hasn’t happened to me yet, but it sounds infuriating
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
I can not successfully click on the thing everyone is talking about for the life of me.
It also expands when you hover over it
Could make it open in a new tab, at least.
All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.
Oh I guess that wasn’t just me being an idiot, this is some kind of systemic idiocy. Nice to know.
I solely open YouTube videos in new tabs can’t relate.
How does that stop you from being affected? It’s literally an <a> element
I mean I do get the page
But I don’t lose some video I may never find again
Good for you, sometimes I only notice it after watching one or two videos on another tab, and then it’s really annoying
I new-tab basically anything. Faster than having to reload the search page 20 times looking for a solution.
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
yt-dlp is a feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader with support for thousands of sites.
Why are you promoting it like it’s one of those scam sites?
Feel free conduct a cursory for it on this very platform which will take all of five seconds.
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
Something is wrong with you.
Yeah that sucks, but have you ever heard of a thing called the “Back” button?
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
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?
No, it’s when I click the thumbnail. It doesn’t show up in either the browser or youtube history.
