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> And the videos almost always going to play faster and more smoothly from google CDN versus some homebrew solution. Speaking of this, why do all of those anno

> And the videos almost always going to play faster and more smoothly from google CDN versus some homebrew solution. Speaking of this, why do all of those annoying autoplaying videos on every major news site always take ages to load? Every YouTube video starts playing instantly, but when I click a link to any news site I literally have to sit there waiting over 5 seconds for the video to start playing so that I can pause it again (because otherwise it will start playing after I've already started to scroll down), even though I have a reasonably fast connection.

leeoniya 9y ago
because 90% of the time they load from some third party and the other overlapping 90% is that they're universally coded like shit.
pacifika 9y ago
They have to load the preload ad player followed by the ad followed by the video player that adds tracking to the auto playing video.