<ul><li>YouTube recently changed the behavior of filling blank spaces around videos in full-screen playback with black to now rendering it in a shade of gray.</li><li>This results in oddly striped patterns for videos that already have embedded black bars.</li><li>Some Android users have started complaining about this change on platforms like Reddit and X.</li><li>Previously, the blank space around a YouTube video was meant to be black, but it is now being rendered as an intermediate shade of gray.</li></ul>

YouTube’s new gray bars are ruining full-screen playback on Android

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