This has been happening to me for a while now. My browser gets extremely laggy and it’s only after Youtube usage.
I noticed the lag but I just figured it was intentionally put there against Firefox. Still dont see ads so im happy with whatever.
i like that the explanation sounds like nobody is able to review the code and find / fix the bug.
Either someones on vacation or Gemini is still trying to vibecode a solution
If I were forced to pick, I’d say it was caused by an inexperienced programmer using AI that caused this.
It’s never just the developer that’s the problem. There should be a system in place to catch obvious bugs like this before they get anywhere near production. So there’s something not right in the company’s review and testing practices. And a bug like this, if it does sneak through, should be fixed very quickly. This has been up for a while so again there’s a problem with the company’s processes.
I’ve met a lot of really shitty developers.
Everyone’s shit sometimes (and some people often), which is why you always need non-shitty processes to preempt and/or catch the mistakes.
Everyone is shit sometimes, but some developers are shit all the time. Like, surprisingly so.
the fact this thing has apparently been happening for a week or more is weird. It’s like front end web dev 101 type stuff and the fix is quite simple a junior should be able to take care of it. So I’m leaning towards it was an AI “assisted” bug and none of the vibe coders know how to fix it OR what’s more concerning to me is they no longer have any qualified front end devs on staff to fix it. you can literally fix this thing via your browsers dev tools right now if you wanted to.
but yeah if you start looking at the youtube front end you’ll quickly see it’s all pretty much vibe coded now. Another clear as day tell on that is the subscribed shorts section. it’s been broken for months and the fix is easy, they just don’t know how to do it.
Sorry, guys, my bad.
I was vibe coding “Make a user interface worse than YouTube” and the agent misunderstood and escaped it’s sandbox.
Ah I’ve been noticing some weird youtube behavior lately. This probably explains it.
Crazy something like this passes a company as large as Google’s eyes.
LLM is a hell of a drug my friend.
The joys of vibe coding. As long as this won’t cost them a ton of money, they will keep vibe coding. Just look at the state of windows
I ran into this yesterday, linux just killed one of my other apps to not freeze. If it had taken out Firefox instead, I would have known YT was at fault right away
All of this for their UI to look the worst it ever has. Brilliant.
It’s always:
fuck YouTube. Use peer tube
…till YouTube goes down. Then the truth crawls out the weeds.
firefox freezes
kill PID with the highest CPU use
youtube tabs all crash
reload youtube video(s)
repeat in a couple of daysYou can use about:processes to do it all in browser before it freezes and yt is slow. Also shows you tab ram usage.
The bug is in the Webbrowsers, because a random webpage can do that.
Not really, my browser should happily comply if a webpage I want to use needs 7 GB.
No way YouTube needs 7 GB.
What reason would a single website have for requiring 7GB, and why should it be permitted?
Glares at Datadog
It’s all intentional to get you to be so frustrated with your current browser and switch to Google Chrome.
Oh no
anyway
I was having massive slowdown, cleared my history on youtube and right as rain now.
Hmm maybe that’s why my chromecast has been crashing with YouTube (SmartTube) the past 1-2 days?I should probably have read the article more carefully and seen that the bug is irrelevant to SmartTube, since its a web ui interface bug and not a video playback interface bug
It’s an interface bug though. SmartTube uses its own interface and why would it even be affected by the YouTube web interface?
