[kwyjobojoe]

Given that Google has a history of accidentally breaking things in YouTube that only impacts Firefox, I'm 100% certain they can be trusted to muck around in apps written by others.

Think of the opportunities. Next time Google releases a new social media system they can automatically add it into every existing Android app as a login option!

Google dropping their payment system again? Not a problem, they can just change everyone's billing code.

Or when they do the monthly random feature deprecation on Google cloud they can just modify any code that accessed it, across all apps!

Why bother testing when your app code could be changed at any time by Google. The time and cost savings will be massive.

[square_usual]

> Given that Google has a history of accidentally breaking things in YouTube that only impacts Firefox

For those not in the loop about this: https://archive.is/ODWrQ

[loosetypes]

Idk sometimes seems like YouTube’s just been breaking YouTube lately, even outside of Firefox.

I think they must have recently changed playback sync to be cloud-first, as jumping back 10s in a video has recently been badly glitching for me both in Chrome and on the iPad app. Often jumps back 20 mins to the start of a video, or where a prior session’s playback had been saved, thereby losing progress you’d made. Not the end of the world but frustrating when you’re watching a lecture and want to catch a detail you just missed. Really breaks continuity.

I’m sure maybe it consolidates implementation making each client simpler and probably satisfies a couple buzzword checkboxes from the business side but why would I possibly trust picking up playback across devices when I can’t trust it on one?