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Re:YouTube Had a Bug – I Used ChatGPT to Investigate by LoganDark on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:42AM (#49593972)
This isn't a bug, it's intentional. YouTube will skip back some amount of time on purpose if it thinks you haven't been to the video in a while. Even if all you did was click away from the tab for some hours.
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Re:YouTube Had a Bug – I Used ChatGPT to Investigate by theZilber on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:54AM (#49611231)
Skipping back twenty minutes in time is not a feature. The reason it was skipping in the first place was because it would use a stale param on videos opened from youtube history.
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Re:YouTube Had a Bug – I Used ChatGPT to Investigate by LoganDark on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:15PM (#49616360)
If the URL had a t= parameter then that is also a feature, but I agree that I don't like when such URLs accidentally overwrite the point of the video I wanted to resume from.

The article still calls the 20-second thing a "bug" when it's not.

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