Description of the issue: A few days back, possibly a week, the videos on the youtube home page have reduced in size by about half. (this includes the title as well) Steps to Reproduce (add as many as necessary): 1. 2. 3. Open brave Go to https://www.youtube.com/ Observe smaller videos Actual R…

From this information I made up the conclusion that it would be a youtube issue that is causing this. So what I did was log into a different account on brave and the videos returned to their original size. I even logged into the same account that was previously on brave on another browser to really …

@kuudora , The panel on the left seems smaller as well — can you confirm whether or not you’ve simply zoomed in on the page? You can check by visiting Youtube.com , letting the page load, then checking the main menu and confirming that the Zoom value is set to 100%. [image]

Thanks for mentioning that, I completely forgot to say that in the post. I am using zoom 90% most of the time and did also test putting zoom back to 100% which did unfortunately not restore the old size. Here is a screenshot of the regular 100% zoom on brave [image]

Thanks for confirming. In that case I’m actually not sure what’s going on here. I am curious if you try visiting Youtube in a Private window, do you still see the same issue?

No worries! Good work sleuthing it out — hope you’re able to find an answer as to why it happened to begin with :+1:

Youtube videos in home page halved in size

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kuudora May 14, 2024, 5:58pm 5

It appears that I do not get the same issue in a private window:

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Youtube videos in home page halved in size

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