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Comment by mooktakim

I could list so many problems with YouTube app (on android for me).

- Multiple times a day I accidentally click another video and try to go back to previous video and lose the position (they used to have a confirmation dialog to play another video when you already have something playing, got rid of it for some reason.

- I used to be able to Chromecast to TV with a casting playlist, where I'd easily add and remove videos, change order. I was able to disconnect from TV and continue watching, later connect to TV again. They completely messed it up. Now it's even worse they created multiple "play on device" and it's so awkward to add videos to queue.

- when I play a video, why doesn't it continue downloading the entire video so I watch it offline. I need to specifically download and it doesn't save the position properly.

- playing videos offline doesn't always remembers position and doesn't keep track of played.

- previews reset the watched position of videos and litters watched history with videos you didn't actually watch.

- notifications are useless, it doesn't notify me of videos I specifically subscribed to and want notifications for.

Sorry for the rant. It just so happens YouTube is where I consume most of my content.

parent mooktakim 3 hours ago

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