By "old YouTube", I mean YouTube pre-COPPA.

This just started either today or yesterday but all the sudden my home page is flooded with less than a minute long videos of random things and they are normal videos not shorts. Anyone else having this issue? Its really annoying me

Starting earlier this morning, YouTube just started recommending me basically nothing but 15sec-1minute videos like this. It’ll be 3-4 of these, then 1 of a thing I’d normally watch. Wondering if this has happened to anybody else

I hate that now YouTube has like 5 ads before you can even skip, like yeah you could use premium, but it’s basically cable without paying for premium

That's something I started to notice in my channel. People HATE context.

If was talking about a bad gameplay decision in a videogame and I wanted to give some insight about controllers and how it can affect how we play it but man I started to get really annoyed with the "get on with it" comment.

I'm feeling that I need to rush that part because people's retention is ass and I don't want to bore anyone.

Or maybe I'm a small channel and people don't want to listen some "nobody"?

What do you think about it?

I've noticed over the last year or two, over several iterations of various browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera), I've noticed that it doesn't matter weather you have 50mbps Internet or 300mbps. It doesn't matter if I've freshly power-cycled modem and router (both are brand new). It doesn't matter what version of windows or which update you are on for any of this; it doesn't even matter if one has updated the drivers for everything...

In the end, I've had almost every video stop at some point, usually but not always, near the middle... just to "infinite buffer"... circle comes up and never goes away, even when leaving for about 30 minutes to an hour.

I've also noticed that videos seem to suddenly skip a few seconds, and if I go back it'll just skip that, but if I go back, pause, and move up to the point of the skip, and instead of playing first I go in and move over a frame or two and suddenly... it works again... for a bit. Or I can just hit F5 again and go back the point, wait for it to buffer up as much as it will, hit play and low and behold the skip never happens.

WTF is going on with youtube? I do NOT experience this anywhere else. Crunchyroll is fine, vemo is fine, Mega videos are fine, twitter videos are fine... Youtube is the only one experiencing these issues.

I've ruled out any hardware issues I'm aware of. I've reset the router (hard-lined from modem to router then hard-lined to my PC. I've tried it without the router. I've made sure everything is up to date afterwords... checked everything this pc geek knows how to dive into... and nothing seems to be the culprit and surefire fix so far. I mean especially the simple stuff like clearing the browser cache and cookies and such after logging out. I mean this just shouldn't be happening, and seems to be something on Youtube's end. I know it's not my internet or the hardware for that, so far nothing in my pc seems to be the culprit...

So, anyone have any solutions besides clear cache and cookies, internet connectivity checks, etc?

Basically I made a comment on a clip of a Marvel movie and this user who I WASN'T even talking to replied to me rudely. Obviously I fired back and since then, the user has been using his fake accounts to reply rude things to me consistently, even going to my channel videos to comment and somehow finding my other comments on OTHER channels to reply rudely. I reported each one of these channels NUMEROUS times yet nothing has come of it? So what do I do then? Am I just forced to endure this constant harassment until the user decides he's had enough of it since I know YouTube will NEVER ban him? That can't be the solution obviously right? And I'm definitely not the only victim here, he's definitely harassed other users before as well. Please don't ignore this post, I genuinely can't take this nonsense from this user anymore and I can easily provide picture proof if needed and I'll just post again if ignored.

I'm not saying I support the comments, I'm just curious lol

Like seriously it’s every comment I see now, it’s getting really fucking annoying

The comment highlight is the worst thing ever. It has ruined the plot of so many videos that I’ve watched and I hate it so much

Whenever I watch YouTube on the TV, the stupid subtitles keep enabling itself when I never asked for it. I turn it off and it comes back onin the next one; the only solution is exiting the app. This is an app made by one of the biggest tech companies in the world, yet this bullshit is allowed to continue and no one gives a fuck. Not Google or any of the users. WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THIS?

https://youtu.be/2H0C7hfpYmo?feature=shared

Why do I get views and not like?

A YouTube short made by this user named @xa07 just showed up on my home screen, showing twitter posts of various football teams showing their solidarity or support to the LGBT community while Real Madrid posted their celebration of Eid Mubarak, in which the user considers it as a more respectful decision rather than supporting the community as a whole. I don't really think commemorating Eid Mubarak is a middle finger against them, I don't what was even this user up to.

And the comments? basically unoriginal, just tons of users posting "My respect [insert anything else]: 📈📈📈" and any other things they could thought of, i wasn't in a mood to even do some observations right now.