Is Youtube altering browser controls?
Look at the title in the tab and then look at the title of the video. They don’t match. Also look at the back arrow. It is not available as a choice. What is happening here?
I selected the Remain in the now video with Krishna Murti giving a talk. Then I clicked a video title You Always Get What You Want - Alan Watts. I watched that one but wanted to go back to the Krishna Murti video. The back button on the browser won’t allow it. Maybe Youtube is doing this.
I might have gotten to the second video via a card (one of the video links made by the creator, within the video frame) I don’t recall. Today I have tried recreating this situation. Whether I click a card, a video link within the video after the original video finishes playing, or a video on the side bar, the videos open in the browser with a different (correct) title on the tab and the back button works.
Is this a glitch in the browser? Is this Youtube not wanting people to get to the previous video? Why would Youtube do that? They might want more ad impressions, more searches, and possibly even not wanting some content creators to get more views.
Has anybody been on Youtube lately and found it impossible to use the back button to view the previously watched video? This is on GNU/Linux.
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Perhaps the problem isn’t totally with Youtube or maybe there is a combination of a Brave problem with a Youtube problem. I don’t know.
Look at this next image. Earlier I had opened a link to the Tumbleweed tiny house company from an e-mail. It opened on their site in a new tab. I did not visit any videos for the company from that page. That is important because this tab has the Rumble logo from a video site.
Later I visited some of my favorite news outlets on the Rumble video site. It has a distinctive icon ahead of the titles of the videos viewed on their site. Look at the last tab in this photo. It is the open tab. It is on the Megyn Kelly Show video home page but the tab says Tiny Home Design: Form and Function in Harmony… and below that is rumble.com (most of those words are only seen when the cursor hovers over the tab).
The brave browser has held in memory the title of a page that was visited earlier, yet switched icons.
There were no other Brave browser windows open at the time.
Perhaps somebody should look into this.
This is on GNU/Linux.
After entering my previous comment I continued using the browser. I noticed something that might help. So here is another post with an image.
Within that same tab of the Megyn Kelly show video list, I visited another creator’s site on Rumble. The name in the tab changed. Then I clicked on several videos there to open in a new tab. The first one was the one in the image. Look at the title in the active tab. It still has the title from the previously posted image. The second and third videos selected do have the correct titles. That is weird.
Then I selected another video from the list at the side of the screen. It was to open within the same tab with the incorrect title. What I noticed as that tab was loading, was that the correct name briefly appeared in the tab, then changed to what is pictured.
I tried duplicating this a few more times and failed. Maybe the problem self corrects.
@Smallwheels,
Thank you for reporting.
I actually suspect that this might have something to do with the extensions you have installed in the browser at this time. Can you please try creating a new temp. profile (Menu --> More tools --> Add new profile) and reproducing the issue in the new profile with no extensions?
The URL appears to be correct for the Krishna Murti video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SxnDMjORDE
I’ve had the same bug in youtube, but I’ve put it down to Youtube being a single-page app, which means it overrides the default browser behaviour for Forward and Back, and tries to construct the appropriate content within the existing page rather than loading the full document at each URL.
It might be a bug in the browser, but I’ve always got round it by pressing F5 to reload the full page at the current URL.
