whoa no sound keith? is that still happening?
and gah val, that is really vexing, it fixing then unfixing! what browser are people using? i wonder if that makes any difference? i use firefox.............. where oh where is :bowdown: booli, doesn't he usually fix all our tech worries for us?!
glad it worked for you mark, is it still working ok?
on firefox i am seeing the old layout on both my own vid pages and other people's, and it is lasting - so far anyway...
I hate the new look as well. I have not tried to change it back (yet).
Those folks that have the glassed-over eye-roll and usually scroll past a 'wall of text' may want to make an exception and actually read the rest of my post, it will inform and educate...
I will investigate how to make the old presentation persistent and share what I find, but I suspect that it is either due to a browser cookie being set, and/or being logged in to your YT account.
FYI: Google is preparing for an all-out assault against Mozilla in the Chrome browser vs. Firefox browser respectively as they compete for market share...
Mozilla is soon to release Firefox v.57, which is a MASSIVE change to the core functionality of the browser, and Google is trying to adapt, and/or beat them down in every way possible...(if you can help it, you may want to DECLINE the upgrade to Firefox 57, until you understand how it will effect you, and then decide, I will be holding it off and NOT upgrading for as long as possible because it will break my workflow for my day-job and make my recreational internet use very painful)
This is also made worse by a new encrypted video delivery standard called 'E.M.E.' that was just ratified last month by the W3C, (World WIde Web Consortum), which allows and almost mandates that video (and other media) content is to be encrypted at all times on the web.
Sponsors of this new policy, and if you ask me are 'Payola Players' and lobbyists to get this passed, are Microsoft, Google, Netflix and Amazon (and 1-2 others I cant recall) are wholly controlling Tim Berners-Lee (CEO of the W3C) and Ajit Pai (USA FCC Chairman and overall retard and puppet of Trump) and despite several petitions AGAINST E.M.E., the W3C has passed the resolution and the FCC has done nothing to intervene, so I suspect YT, Netflix, Vimeo and other sites are going to become even MORE craptastic until nobody cares about video, and we are all forced to use pirate sites to able to run the Seasons, which I for one, will be very happy to facilitate....
Remember that YT is free as a service of Google, which has made themselves a subsidiary of their own parent company called 'Alphabet, Inc' back in Feb 2017, and Google offers these 'free' services in order to monetize your habits and tracking data.
There is an axiom in the computer realm:
"If the product or service is 'free', then YOU as the user of said 'thing' are in fact the 'product' being sold to advertisers and 3rd-parties unknown."
This is fact and the default modus operandi for Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other sites, while they may actually provide a useful service, but they are doing so in a way that treats the end-users like the human battery-pods in 'The Matrix' movies to keep their companies going...
I will report back when I figure out how to make things 'normal' again on YT...stay tuned.