I get that "Use a real computer" isn't helpful though, so I'd recommend getting an app like NewPipe since you can use the "share" button there to copy the video's URL with the current timestamp included to your clipboard or paste it directly into apps of your choosing.
Edit: Got the story wrong. Wadsworth was just a commenter with an opinion and someone who worked at youtube had a sense of humor.
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YouTube will have ?v=[SOME ID] so you can't reuse the question mark.
...and if you didn't think this wasn't one of the goals of that trend, now you do. Those in power hate it when people can consume information from and communicate outside of their sanctioned methods.
We saw it coming when they started dumbing down browsers and hiding things from users --- not because the majority wouldn't use them, but to deliberately make users less inclined to learn.
Nearly 10 years ago(!) when that started happening, I made a comment here about how many YouTube users at the time realised what was the important part of the URL (the video ID) and began to use that in comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7678729
The vast majority of users have no idea what an address or address bar is, let alone a Universal Resource Locator. Hell, most users don't understand files and folders in a computing context either.
As much as I hate how iOS, Android, MacOS, and presumably even Windows these days are obfuscating the file system and nearly everything pertaining to it, I do think it's a necessary step in the right direction. Most users do not address, and as computing hardware and software engineers, designers, and nerds we have an obligation to provide computers that all users can easily understand.
There is point where dumbing down technology doesn't make it meaningfully more accessible but just serves to harm users. Hiding the URL bar is past that point.
Why? Because I'm not confident I can type their URLs properly and any typos are a one-way ticket to Scam City. Chances are reasonable Google has the correct website URL. Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed.
Between inconvenience, unintuitiveness, and "I ain't got time for this" mentality it's no surprise why file system structures are obfuscated away.
googles no1 spot has become scam city hundreds of times for big namens just this year alone
>Bookmarks, you say? Can't be arsed.
in the time you complained about this problem of your own creation you could habe bookmarked your top 20-50 visited sites.
off topic but i see more and more "I'm too lazy to do x" where the solution would be easier than just being "lazy"
Did I really type in amazon.com correctly? Not amazn.com? amazon.cm? Or some other stupid typo that will send me straight to Scam City?
In that time I could have gone to Google (which is my browser home page), typed in something vaguely resembling "amazon", and the first or second link will be amazon.com 99% of the time.
I ain't got time.
What differenciated the Middle Ages from the Enlightenment periods is the understanding that people aren’t that stupid, we don’t have to hide the Bible behind Latin, we can translate it to the local language and they’ll learn by themselves instead of going through clercs, and the same goes for law, physics, sciences and philosophy.
And we’re much better off with populaces able to make decisions for themselves (ie copy from the URL and drop one letter by mistake) than dumbing down everything to have control over them.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in for a dev-switch which would enable scripting and open up everything in OSes. But tell me how you are gonna do that without scammers telling grandmas “Copy this thing to here, yeah…”. Currently the dev switch is e.g. a Mac and $99/year, for iOS.
No wonder Chrome wants to hide all that...
https://nitter.net/OldRowSwig/status/1732112446943269347