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Pretty funny story considering YouTube is back to unusable on slow connections. They used to buffer the full video, so you could load up a page, let it sit unti
by lnanek2 11y ago
Pretty funny story considering YouTube is back to unusable on slow connections. They used to buffer the full video, so you could load up a page, let it sit until the video buffers, then watch it eventually, maybe after reading your social news sites. Nowadays the buffering feature has been removed and you'll just come back, hit play, get a second or two of video, then it has nothing again for a long time.
Feels bad for the engineer who spent all that time reducing the size and finding out it made YouTube much more usable across the globe. Amusingly, disabling buffering was probably some penny wise pound foolish way to save bandwidth.
- flippant 11y agoIt's for the average user with a decent connection that skips parts of a video. This is tedious, but if you want to buffer a YouTube video try youtube-dl[0] or using VLC. [0]https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
- jimworm 11y agoYou can disable mediasource extensions in your browser to get the old download-it-all html5 video.