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Which is a shame, because desktop YouTube is one 8f the best video player UIs that I have ever used, and I'm still searching for a desktop video player that is as usable.

Although the mobile version is unconscionably awful, I almost always have to guess at what the controls do and avoid opening the app.

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Are you joking? Desktop YouTube is one of the worst UIs I've had to deal with. Controls constantly popping up over the video, annotations on by default, autoplay to the next video on by default. If you're in full screen mode and switch to another app, then come back, the video is just ... gone. It's not on the page, but it's not full-screen anymore, either. Buttons and options that don't show up consistently on every video. No way to fix the aspect ratio of videos created by morons. Crap everywhere on the page. I seriously find it hard to believe that anyone would consider YouTube to have a good video player interface, let alone the best.

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