did the youtube player suddenly get way bigger for anyone else

[Subpixel]

A couple of months ago YouTube's large player (activated from the square button) became very very wide. A few minutes ago, I click on a video and now even the small player is loving huge.

Small player for me (I double checked zoom, it's at 100%)


Large player (even bigger now)



What the forget is this? If I wanted to see the video the size of my loving monitor, i'd fullscreen it.

Did this happen to anyone else?

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[Catofblocks]

yes

[Ipquarx]

It displays in 1280x720 format if your browser is big enough to fit the video.

[Masterlegodude]

I was told about this a while back but didn't know what the person was talking about, but just a few weeks ago i got this and realized what they were talking about

It's pretty weird, but i guess in some cases it saves me the trouble of scrolling down to my playlist for the next video or to shut off the autoplay feature since i liked to watch videos in widescreen rather than the small screen it started out as

[gr8dayseth]

Happened to me too, but instead of getting bigger for me when I go to the bigger view, it centers the video and puts black lines around it, it calls it theater mode.

[otto-san]

Yeah. I like it. c:

[Khaz]

i like it.

I like the player being large but not fullscreen, so I have the ability to click on other stuff without having to constantly exit/enter fullscreen

[Rockinboy2000]

i like it, can actually see stuff now