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I think disabling the all the user snooping would help reduce the latency too. Just saying :)

• asdff 7y ago
  Nearly 15 years of youtube and the only new feature I've noticed that isn't directly copied from the unusually innovative explicit video sites are the ads polluting every video, 4 minutes apart. Brilliant engineering, really, the best talent working on this. As an aside: is it possible to go back to a 2005 version of the site? I bet that site absolutely flies on modern hardware, and all I really want is the search bar and player anyway.
  • la_barba 7y ago
    Well, I do think that delivering all the YT features to users on a global scale is an engineering challenge. Its just that I would much rather prefer they didn't actually succeed at doing that, especially when it comes to a few of those so called "features". >As an aside: is it possible to go back to a 2005 version of the site? I bet that site absolutely flies on modern hardware, and all I really want is the search bar and player anyway. On one hand, I dislike the SV venture capital thing about throwing money at companies and products that contineu to rack up giant losses simply because they're growing like crazy. On the other hand, YT would probably never have been a global phenomenon if it didn't run at a loss during the initial years and if google hand't acquired it. It is expected that Google is looking for a return on investment of their 6 or whatever billion dollars they paid. Its just too bad that Google is an advertising company and all they can do is shove ads and crapify the experience. Aside: I find it hard to criticize Google without sounding like I'm personally antagonistic towards the engineers who work there.