Why doesn’t YouTube’s browser interface work like the app?

[Chew Toy McCoy]

By that I mean in the app you can scroll through comments and other information and the video still stays in its location. On the browser when you scroll it also scrolls the video off the screen. Is there a way to change that? It seems like really lazy programming considering how many sites have ads on their sites that you don't want to see and you are unable to scroll them off the screen. So this should be possible with YouTube's browser interface to lock the video in place.

 

[Cmaier]

By that I mean in the app you can scroll through comments and other information and the video still stays in its location. On the browser when you scroll it also scrolls the video off the screen. Is there a way to change that? It seems like really lazy programming considering how many sites have ads on their sites that you don't want to see and you are unable to scroll them off the screen. So this should be possible with YouTube's browser interface to lock the video in place.

Google wants you to use the app, so they gimped the webpage.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Google wants you to use the app, so they gimped the webpage.

I probably should have mentioned this, I'm talking about using the browser on a Mac, not a cell phone or tablet.

 

[Cmaier]

I probably should have mentioned this, I'm talking about using the browser on a Mac, not a cell phone or tablet.

Ah, well the reason for *that* is google hates you.

 

[Runs For Fun]

I probably should have mentioned this, I'm talking about using the browser on a Mac, not a cell phone or tablet.

Google wants you to use the app, so they gimped the webpage.

I feel like that statement still might be true. They can probably collect a lot more data from the app than from the website.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Ah, well the reason for *that* is google hates you.

But they can't hate me. I fully qualified for and received a gmail account.