Freaking YouTube TV

There’s a new bug in the YouTube TV app for Google TV that is so utterly stupid that I need to rant about it. When you play a video and press back on the remote, it should jump back 10 seconds. Well, now it now jumps back 10 seconds… and then immediately skips forwards 10 seconds to where you were before. So pressing back is basically doing nothing anymore, other than glitching a bit. You have to press back multiple times, or pause first and then press back. The same thing also happens when you press forwards: It skips forwards 10 seconds, and then jumps back to where you were before. This is already pretty annoying. But now comes the best part: There’s this “Jump ahead” YouTube Premium feature that entirely skips a commonly skipped segment. You press forwards once, it knows that many people skipped this segment as well, and then jumps ahead to where other people usually jumped to. It basically allows you to skip sponsor segments quickly. So you press forwards once on the remote, it…