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- “Experiencing interruptions?” reads the message in a blue bar underneath choppy video, as seen in the above screenshot. Clicking “find out why” brings you to Google’s new website, where it displays video playback quality for internet service providers (ISPs) in various countries. It’s like a report card for your delinquent ISP.
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"Hey, our comments section may be one of the most horrifying ones on the modern web, but at least it loads quickly!"
(Though to be fair, their servers do balance load/prioritize based on video popularity so some of the less well-known channels' videos do genuinely take longer 'because of' youtube.)
edit Oh, unless you meant the privacy thing (linking to google/g+)... or the newer thing they're doing, blocking out smaller/'indie' musicians, if you were referring to that.... or - well, any number of things really. 'Youtube's making itself worse' seems like a widely-expressed sentiment.