YouTube Had a Bug - I Used ChatGPT to Investigate

Global Sports Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:43:02 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

The Bug:In the past few days, I noticed a bug I could not keep ignoring.
Sometimes YouTube would randomly skip back in time during soft reloads, and whenever I would reload a video I did not finish watching, it would load noticeably earlier than the point where I stopped watching.
This pissed me off so much I chose to dig into this issue as deeply as I could, with the goal of opening a ticket to Google and telling them "You have this issue, this is where the problem is, here is the fix, fix it and stop pushing slop.

The Bug:In the past few days, I noticed a bug I could not keep ignoring.
Sometimes YouTube would randomly skip back in time during soft reloads, and whenever I would reload a video I did not finish watching, it would load noticeably earlier than the point where I stopped watching.
This pissed me off so much I chose to dig into this issue as deeply as I could, with the goal of opening a ticket to Google and telling them "You have this issue, this is where the problem is, here is the fix, fix it and stop pushing slop.

Sources: Thezilber