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Youtube: * Buffering was nerfed/broken some time ago. I can no longer watch 720p+ videos on youtube at all. * Changing video quality now has a long and unavoi

Youtube: * Buffering was nerfed/broken some time ago. I can no longer watch 720p+ videos on youtube at all. * Changing video quality now has a long and unavoidable delay, and often fails outright. * Google are evidently uneasy about the profile name that I signed up with, and have been repeatedly nudging me to change it. I don't know how to reassure them about my choice. * Advertising. Everywhere.

iopq 13y ago
There's ads on youtube? I wouldn't know, I'm using adblock
vmarsy 13y ago
A trick I use when I change quality is immediately clicking on the time bar, it enforce the change right away. I agree with all the annoying points above!
colmvp 13y ago
I can watch 720p+ videos but I have definitely noticed recently that loading is slower and sometimes more inconsistent. The subscription feed is a mess. Before it was a grid and now it's in a list. The only reason why I know there are more videos uploaded than what's in my feed is because video authors title their videos in parts. So if I see "Part 3" I know that Part 2 and Part 1 are somewhere, just not in my feed.
cpeterso 13y ago
YouTube keeps insisting I merge my legacy YouTube account with Google+. Then YouTube insisted I use two-factor authentication (to watch cat videos) and made me choose between giving them my phone number so they could send me a text message or giving them my phone number so they could robo-call me.
- conradfr 13y ago
  I think the last time they bugged me about it there was no choice to opt out (because I have some uploaded videos on it IIRC). I clicked around and somehow I now have a new G+ account which is different than the one linked to my Google account which is linked to my Youtube account. Brillant.
lzm 13y ago
Luckily you can fix the buffering behaviour with a browser extension. Look for "SmartVideo for Youtube".
aestra 13y ago
I hate that Google "created" a youtube account for me, just because I use Gmail doesn't mean I want a youtube account (I don't). One day I forget to sign out of Gmail, I browse to Youtube, and bam, now I have a Youtube account, I'm signed in, and my video history is tracked, and I have to manually turn that off. I didn't ask for that.
- WCityMike 13y ago
  If you're not on Google+, you can delete that. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55759?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55759?hl=en

iopq 13y ago

There's ads on youtube? I wouldn't know, I'm using adblock

vmarsy 13y ago

A trick I use when I change quality is immediately clicking on the time bar, it enforce the change right away. I agree with all the annoying points above!

colmvp 13y ago

I can watch 720p+ videos but I have definitely noticed recently that loading is slower and sometimes more inconsistent. The subscription feed is a mess. Before it was a grid and now it's in a list. The only reason why I know there are more videos uploaded than what's in my feed is because video authors title their videos in parts. So if I see "Part 3" I know that Part 2 and Part 1 are somewhere, just not in my feed.

cpeterso 13y ago

YouTube keeps insisting I merge my legacy YouTube account with Google+. Then YouTube insisted I use two-factor authentication (to watch cat videos) and made me choose between giving them my phone number so they could send me a text message or giving them my phone number so they could robo-call me.

conradfr 13y ago
I think the last time they bugged me about it there was no choice to opt out (because I have some uploaded videos on it IIRC). I clicked around and somehow I now have a new G+ account which is different than the one linked to my Google account which is linked to my Youtube account. Brillant.

lzm 13y ago

Luckily you can fix the buffering behaviour with a browser extension. Look for "SmartVideo for Youtube".

aestra 13y ago

I hate that Google "created" a youtube account for me, just because I use Gmail doesn't mean I want a youtube account (I don't). One day I forget to sign out of Gmail, I browse to Youtube, and bam, now I have a Youtube account, I'm signed in, and my video history is tracked, and I have to manually turn that off. I didn't ask for that.

WCityMike 13y ago
If you're not on Google+, you can delete that. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55759?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/55759?hl=en