If you have YouTube Premium and are offline with a downloaded video, you can’t like the video. You can’t open the full description, so if you watch a concert, you can’t see the timestamps. You can’t get the URL for the video.

The UI is all over the place. The download indicator is on the same line as the name of the channel. Why? YouTube’s automatic downloads even grab Shorts.

The reason I think it is stupid not to offer likes in offline mode is that the phone has memory, so you can just upload the information later. It is similar with the URL: you can just save the video URL while downloading the video.

Competition is needed for YouTube. I’d love to see an open video protocol get more use. There is PeerTube, which is cool, but almost no one is there.

I am just glad that this is my free month trial.