YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

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YouTube's 20th Birthday
- 20+ billion videos, 20+ million daily uploads
- Multiview on YouTube TV
- Voice replies with comment for creators
- Ask Music (personalised radio stations) for Premium on Android & iOS
- 4x playback speed for Premium
- New navigation UI for TV users

More info: YouTube Blog
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YouTube Charts to replace YouTube Trending page
- Effective: July 21, 2025
- Explore charts for Trending Music Videos, Weekly Top Podcast Shows, and Trending Movie Trailers

More info: YouTube Community
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YouTube Premium Lite: Play videos in background and offline
- Alongside ad-free videos, you will soon be able to play videos in background and download them to watch offline.
- The perk will be rolling out starting today and become widely available in the coming weeks.

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Picture-in-picture on YouTube to be available for everyone
- This feature is applicable for long-form videos and non-music content on the Android and iOS apps.
- To use this feature, play any video in the app and exit to keep watching while doing other things, with controls available upon tapping it.
- Rolling out to all users globally in the coming months.

More info: YouTube Community
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Zoom in on YouTube web natively
- Firs introduced on mobile as pinch to zoom, it appears that YouTube has quietly added something similar on the web.
- You can continue to play and pan across the video with magnification of up to 5x.
- Unlike on mobile, this feature can be used in both full screen and non-full screen mode.
- At the time of writing, the web version currently does not support pinch to zoom with a touch screen.
- The feature should be widely available for everyone.

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