If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
@mwichary Gosh I have no idea if this is helpful but this is not my experience watching YouTube videos. If I am watching and I leave it still tends to show the video as partially watched when I come back, usually a little earlier than where I left off. I am watching as a logged in user (whose history is not tracked by YouTube otherwise) and with an oldish AppleTV in case that's helpful.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
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@mwichary Gosh I have no idea if this is helpful but this is not my experience watching YouTube videos. If I am watching and I leave it still tends to show the video as partially watched when I come back, usually a little earlier than where I left off. I am watching as a logged in user (whose history is not tracked by YouTube otherwise) and with an oldish AppleTV in case that's helpful.
@jessamyn Thanks! This usually works as you describe, but there is a repeatable problem when I leave quickly. Which is easy to do when I choose a wrong one by mistake.
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@colinstu I am aware of this, but this is unrelated.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
Not only Apple TV. I just reproduced it on iOS. I tapped on this unwatched video and closed it after a second or two. Now it’s marked as completely watched.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
@mwichary …yep. And sometimes, if I stop watching at 90%, it resets the watch progress to 0%.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
@mwichary lol maybe it's an artifact of this
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@mwichary lol maybe it's an artifact of this
@grumpasaurus No, it’s been going on for a while and didn’t change recently.
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@grumpasaurus No, it’s been going on for a while and didn’t change recently.
@mwichary for a couple weeks maybe?
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@mwichary for a couple weeks maybe?
@grumpasaurus Years at this point.
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@grumpasaurus Years at this point.
@mwichary quick. Play all the videos on my channel
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Not only Apple TV. I just reproduced it on iOS. I tapped on this unwatched video and closed it after a second or two. Now it’s marked as completely watched.
It’s been like this for years for me. It is not related to the recent view count change.
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@mwichary quick. Play all the videos on my channel
@grumpasaurus @mwichary great idea
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
Facebook has very strong algorithm bias towards reading someone switching to another app over page as ‘the thing drove you away! We will banish it forever!’
I see this happen with YouTube as well. I don’t always have time for a video of the length presented. I simply don’t have the time. Maybe later. Where did it go?
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It’s been like this for years for me. It is not related to the recent view count change.
@mwichary Doesn’t happen to me on any platform using YouTube apps or the browser.
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@mwichary Doesn’t happen to me on any platform using YouTube apps or the browser.
@glennf Thanks! It’s all so peculiar.
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@glennf Thanks! It’s all so peculiar.
@glennf It’s really annoying, but mostly I would love to understand.
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If I play a YouTube video for ~3 seconds and leave, it becomes marked as completely watched, with the red line extending all the way under the thumbnail. It’s been like this forever.
Does anyone know if this is a bug, or intentional? It’s frustrating to me.
(Apple TV.)
@mwichary Same here. It’s sometimes intermittent and happens the first time correctly but subsequent visits or pass-bys are fully to the right.
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Not only Apple TV. I just reproduced it on iOS. I tapped on this unwatched video and closed it after a second or two. Now it’s marked as completely watched.
@mwichary it's a livestream, I don't know why youtube does that. even for vertical livestreams you scroll pasts in shorts they're marked as fully watched afterwards.
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@mwichary it's a livestream, I don't know why youtube does that. even for vertical livestreams you scroll pasts in shorts they're marked as fully watched afterwards.
@6lr61 This isn’t specific to livestreams, and happens to normal videos as well.
