Kelson01

Does YouTube autoplay keep turning itself on for you guys??? I ALWAYS HAVE IT OFF! -- I can't find people complaining about this online but it can't just be me.

With the YouTube "improvements" lately I'm a little suspicious that it's intentional. It never used to happen and I've been using YouTube my whole life.

6 days ago | [YT] | 376



@deathsyth8888

I keep turning off Closed Captions and then randomly it turns back on again. Even after going into settings and turning it off across platforms (phone, TV and website). This has been going on for maybe 2 years.

6 days ago (edited) | 53

@supersillysammy272

That's funny, I have the opposite problem. I keep auto play on yet half of the time it doesn't work for me and I have to manually press play

6 days ago | 19

@Kelson01

It's doing it across all the devices I use YouTube on too... And it's been happening for months. It doesn't always do it, but every few days it often will turn on. It's been happening since before the UI update too...

6 days ago | 28

@Minecraftmike5089

When I want to watch a YouTube video, I download it and save it to my computer. No ads, no bullshit, just me and a .mkv

5 days ago | 4

@TheGuyWhoIsSitting

YouTube’s goal is to keep you on the platform as long as possible. Back in my day you could turn off autoplay on playlists and you didn’t get “radios” and “mixes” when you wanted to pull up a song. And the radio one doesn’t let you turn off autoplay.

6 days ago | 6

@NEON2600

they should remove autoplay

5 days ago | 8

@narwalionn6368

i’m having this too. youtube’s era is ending.

17 hours ago | 0

@griffithsgriffiths1529

Oh my god I thought I was always accidentally tapping the autoplay button this whole time but it was just YouTube being YouTube

4 days ago | 0

@Jerl-ksk

Happens for me too.

27 minutes ago | 0

@rewindd

i keep turning it off because i sleep to YouTube and would wake up to a documentary on plants

4 days ago | 0

@3vlogs487

I have the opposite problem, it keeps getting tuned off for me but I have premium so the only thing YouTube gains from my videos playing all night is paying more to send me videos while I sleep. What a strange coincidence.

3 days ago | 0

@live4mint

Its like that for me for like 2 years, i just dont sleep with youtube on background anymore (btw this autoplay somehow went to unholy places and i woke up to owl screams in pain 3 HOURS LONG UNSKIPPABLE AD so i got scared and closed everything, still sad didnt got video id to check what on earth this is)

3 days ago | 0

@resolvanlemmy

I thought I was alone in this, but I never experienced it on mobile.

6 days ago | 0

@DoorHandleOfficial

I got a lot more ads in the past few months

1 day ago | 0

@lomein2186

on tv and pc, used to on mobile

4 days ago | 0

@dingusboi2009

never had this problem cuz i use revanced lol

6 days ago (edited) | 0

@warecow

From what I’ve noticed is that YouTube remembers stuff on different tabs. So say you had a tab muted on YouTube but your other tab wasn’t muted, and if you click another video in that tab, it will go muted. Even if you unmute again, if you interact with the other tab your next video will be muted. You might have a tab somewhere with auto play on, maybe in your personal computer or another computer or tv or any device, and for some reason YouTube keeps defaulting to those settings, which keeps auto play on

5 days ago | 0

@Larrington03

Yeah it does. Who tf wants auto play on YouTube? This isn't Hulu. I guess YouTube just knows better than us

2 days ago | 0

@Mazupicua1

They're doing you a favor

5 days ago | 1

@IDKisReal2401

Auto play us the OG annoying YouTube decision

6 days ago | 0