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Back in 2024, for reasons seemingly unknown to anyone, YouTube made a subtle change to the colour of the playback bar, with the bar fading from deep red to a slightly pinker shade ...

2024 has been an exceptionally eventful year for Google and the developers at YouTube. The platform tested several polarizing features, but a lot changed on the user-facing side as well.