Apparently #Google has now managed to break a useful feature for #YouTube on TVs. A recent update implemented a rather crude "screensaver" feature that cuts in if you pause a YT video for more than a few minutes. It's quite useless. Amusingly, it moves the screensaver image around a bit presumably to avoid burn-in, but leaves the bright white YouTube logo in a fixed position. Oh well.
More to the point, once the screensaver starts, you lose voice control of the video. That is, normally you can say "Pause YouTube" to any nearby device (e.g., Google Mini) to pause the video, and then "Resume YouTube" to start it up again. But once the screensaver starts, you can no longer resume by voice, you just get "Nothing is playing". Nor is there any way I can find to disable this lame new screensaver feature.
Thanks a bunch Google. Jeez. Google, on a quest to break everything that used to work.
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2024-06-17 18:57:50
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