For example, go to https://www.youtube.com/c/MichelvanBiezen<p>It will be trimmed to https://www.youtube.com/c<p>Then if you do refresh, bookmark it or reopen last closed tab, it gives an error.<p>The same is for URLs of type user: https://www.youtube.com/user/professorleonard57<p>This is in both Opera and Firefox.
I'm seeing a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user</a> [ETA: that URI is literally "/user"] in Firefox when I go to a channel now. My guess: they've decided they don't want people bookmarking channels in their browser.<p>Pretty dirty trick. I've noticed that a lot of the newer channels tended to be put behind long URLs of random characters as well, so they aren't easy to remember.