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Probably too many cases where they deliver a bunch of content while it's paused and then the content never gets played. More than half the people who pause it p
by savanaly 10y ago
Probably too many cases where they deliver a bunch of content while it's paused and then the content never gets played. More than half the people who pause it probably end up closing the tab without finishing the video, so one can save a lot of bandwidth by only delivering the data when it's needed. A totally unsupported hypothesis.
- yomly 10y agoI arrived at the same conclusion when I realised that YouTube no longer buffers the video all the way through to the end on mobile anymore. I miss being able to buffer a (long) video for offline playback when riding public transport.
- joshbaptiste 10y agoDitto, for this case I youtube-dl prior and watch on mobile VLC