I notice that if you are watching a long video on Youtube and your broadband is slow you can't pause it and buffer it up anymore.It only buffers a little bit and then stops.If you hit refresh it gives you a little bit more but often after forcing you to watch five seconds of an ad.What a royal pain but what do you expect from the people who gave us the wonderful Google Chrome.

Youtube has turned into a pain in the unmentionables since Google took it over, especially by tying it to a Google+ account.
_________________

Yes! *NOW* i see how they were right saying google was evil I mean are they seriously doing all this? Limited/awkward to use search feat, this toolbox thing to the left hand side on yt - who needs these?

Occasionally we do get slow internet here (even though I am on ADSL2+) and yes this new 'feature' of pausing the download is very annoying.
_________________

I've noticed it happening too on long videos all of a sudden... actually it just did! (Note the buffering indicator in the center)


_________________

I've noticed this pathetic crap as well. Along with all the ads, youtube is basically unusable these days.
_________________

Yes, but unlike software you can't roll back to older versions
_________________

Youtube seriously blows especially across multiple clients, I've found many things i've tagged to "watch later" via my PC cant be watched on my iPad or AppleTV because they just seem to not exist on that client.

A classic example is the BSG: Blood & Chrome clips, I can not watch them on my ATV so I just wont bother!

And Google's whole "dont be evil" thing is a farce, just look at android, made for carriers so loaded with bloatware backed-up by a lousy google "play" store that is chock full of malware invested apps!


_________________

Yeah, they started this load stop thing a while back. It sucks. I have a really slow connection at work and you tube is pretty much unwatchable from there now. Yeah, so I have to watch youtube on my own time. Bah. But I was watching some Let's Plays and that's out at work now.
_________________

No buffering while paused - A lot of people complained about it in Google Groups, with some claiming that it still works. Naturally, Google has declined to provide an explanation.

Something else very annoying that I've noticed on some videos; The video will pause and a little round stopwatch type icon appears in the corner and does about a ten second countdown and then the video continues. You know when they put a little circle to represent a clock face and then it sort of 'wipes' around in a circle until it's all gone? Yeah, that type of thing. If you click the play button you can force the video to resume immediately, but I don't understand why it's pausing in the first place. It's not for buffering, it just stops, like it was programmed into the video.

As for the ads, I never see any ads on YouTube. Not one. What's my secret? I use this;

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

It's a "Hosts" file which redirects all advertising URLs to your own system, causing them to fail. The result is that it's impossible for your browser (or anything else) to connect to the advertising servers. On many sites, you will see a blank spot, possibly with an error message where the ads are supposed to be. On YouTube, the videos just play. No ads before the videos, no ads popping up during the videos, etc. At least not on any of the videos I've watched over the past 3-4 years.

On the downside, installing the Hosts file will prevent Hulu videos from working. If it can't contact the ad servers, it refuses to play the video. However on Windows, it's usually enough to just temporarily rename the Hosts file, and maybe re-load the browser, then rename it back when you're done.

My solution to YouTube stupidity: a command line and cclive. Ah, luxury! Download and watch whatever you want from YouTube whenever you want. Also good for saving videos for posterity in case they get nuked for 'copyright infringement'.

I use the "Pwn YouTube" bookmarklet myself;

http://deturl.com/bookmarklet-...outube.asp

I'm not crazy about the fact that it relies on a third-party site to work, but they seem to keep it updated and once activated, it shows you all the available formats and sizes for a video, not just the one that you were watching.

I use Videoget IIRC which downloads anything...but lately it fails on some videos where YTD does not etc...but that only allows one at a time except you can run multiple instances of it so you end up with a taskbar full of the same program running many times

Basically I noticed this too ages ago so now I just leave it playing and mute the sound and then come back to it but if there's a 30 second advert at the end I think the cache is flushed.

It is annoying when at peak times here the internet basically drops below a 1mbps connection which is 1999 speeds eek!
_________________

Lately I've been noticing something new and annoying...

Often when I watch a video, I'll spot a couple others of interest in the sidebar. Rather than clicking one, watching it and then going back, I'll just open the video in a new tab. Then sometimes I see interesting videos in that sidebar and open them in new tabs as well. Before I know it, I'll have 6-7 tabs open, with videos either paused or at the end and showing a selection of other videos.

Recently it seems that when I later go back to those tabs, the video player has been replaced by a gray box with an exclamation point in a circle in the center of of it. There are no controls and to get the video back I have to reload the page.

A few times, it's happened right in the middle of a video.

Anyone else seen this?