They've broken YouTube (2024 edition)

[ska invita]

Theres a new update being rolled out for youtube by territory. What it means is if you click on a channel you used to get this view



And you could click on VIDEOS (not playlists) and see a list of every single video from that channel in chronological order. You could even set the order to OLDEST FIRST.

Thats gone.

Now if you click on the channl you have a very limited set of playlists. If the channel is old even on these playlists you only see recent videos from within that playlist. With some prolific channels this means you see a small proportion of the overall content.

Hard to explain but heavy Youtube watchers will know what I mean...anyone else noticed this?
No doubt there will be a plugin available soon to crack this idiocy. I cant imagine why Youtube would choose to limit the number of vidoes people can watch, its the opposite of what they should be encouraging.

If anyone hears of a workaround please post

 

[ska invita]

 

[mwgdrwg]

Using it less and less brcause the ads are just too much now.

 

[emanymton]

The app on my phone seems fine for now, I'm hoping this is a mess up and not something being rolled out.

 

[ska invita]

The app on my phone seems fine for now, I'm hoping this is a mess up and not something being rolled out.

i think its just on desktops at the mo...hopefully teething problems

 

[ska invita]

Using it less and less brcause the ads are just too much now.

yeah when adblocker isnt on any situation (work computer for example) its unbearable - has ad volume got worse?

 

[Cid]

This is two years old. Just updated and don't seem to be any changes.

i.e it's latest/popular/oldest. Both app (ios) and chrome on computer.

 

[mwgdrwg]

yeah when adblocker isnt on any situation (work computer for example) its unbearable - has ad volume got worse?

Soooo much worse.

 

[two sheds]

Still no ads for me with adblocker.

 

[Cid]

Still no ads for me with adblocker.

Which adblocker? they cracked down pretty hard recently.

 

[RevolutionSound]

Which adblocker? they cracked down pretty hard recently.

I use Ghostery

 

[klang]

I use Ghostery

That free?

 

[gentlegreen]

I tried using a third party YT add-on to make it more useful... one thing they could do is add "sleep for 30 days" - or automatically group uploads from channels you subscribe to...
They could also allow searching within a channel on Android.

I with the "shorts" would fuck off - I keep clicking on the bloody things - I do my best to dislike or "not again" the really shite ones...

 

[gentlegreen]

Theres a new update being rolled out for youtube by territory. What it means is if you click on a channel you used to get this view

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And you could click on VIDEOS (not playlists) and see a list of every single video from that channel in chronological order. You could even set the order to OLDEST FIRST.

Thats gone.

Now if you click on the channl you have a very limited set of playlists. If the channel is old even on these playlists you only see recent videos from within that playlist. With some prolific channels this means you see a small proportion of the overall content.

Hard to explain but heavy Youtube watchers will know what I mean...anyone else noticed this?
No doubt there will be a plugin available soon to crack this idiocy. I cant imagine why Youtube would choose to limit the number of vidoes people can watch, its the opposite of what they should be encouraging.

If anyone hears of a workaround please post

Perhaps it's only for non-Prime subscriptions for some reason ?
It's the same as always for me on both Windows and Android...

 

[two sheds]

Which adblocker? they cracked down pretty hard recently.

hard to tell, I've got adblock ultimate which I think is the best one but also duckduckgo privacy essentials, privacy badger & ublock origin. All free as is ghostery which I have used and is also good. All on firefox.

As I've said I've go so many adblockers I'm surprised anything loads

 

[ska invita]

Perhaps it's only for non-Prime subscriptions for some reason ?
It's the same as always for me on both Windows and Android...

yes it seems different people are seeing different things...it would appear to be rolled out partially?
for example heres a record label channel - this is waht I see





There is no ALL VIDEOS and there is definitely no ORDER BY OLDEST FIRST
The sub playlists are often limited to most recent vids only
Different channels have different playlist options .... some even more limited than they realise

THe FOR YOU section is crap = always about five videos long... on one channel Id already seen all the videos!

 

[RevolutionSound]

That free?

Yes

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[ska invita]

View attachment 442928

thanks for posting that
ive lost this bit



that Reddit suggests others have too....
??

strange

 

[hitmouse]

Which adblocker? they cracked down pretty hard recently.

The adblockers are currently winning the war with youtube, I use Adblock Plus and about maybe 95% of the time videos work fine, sometimes I get a "adblockers not allowed, please disable your adblocker and try again" message but if I do then I can just watch the same video using music.youtube.com and it works fine.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I like to watch YouTube on my big TV though, so I can't use ad-blockers with my PlayStation.

 

[maomao]

I noticed this a few weeks ago. Assumed they wanted to make it harder tos each like TikTok. TikTok has almost no's search capabilities so you end up watching what they want you to.

 

[Saul Goodman]

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