Hmm.. I must be doing something wrong then. Logged in on my Chrome on Mac, watched a video, paused it. Closed tab, reloaded tab. The video plays from the beginning. Opened the same video on my iPhone, official youtube app. Plays from the beginning as well.
I guess I need to investigate this further. I didn't realize official google apps support this functionality because it's never worked for me. Thanks for mentioning it.
I sure am. In fact, I just logged in from a completely clean browser (Safari, that I dont use on this machine, so no adblock or third party scripts). When looking at a thumbnail of a previously viewed video I see the "progress bar" that indicates where I left off, but clicking on it, doesn't resume the video. It starts it from the beginning.
Whether it actually wants to work or not is another thing. Video place-saving seems to only work on longer videos - I think the shortest video I've seen that's saved my position was about 16 minutes long - and even then it can still just not work, just like how youtube constantly forgets my "watched" videos.
I guess I need to investigate this further. I didn't realize official google apps support this functionality because it's never worked for me. Thanks for mentioning it.