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> I've seen some stupid shit. Like security architects requiring employees to always but always be tunneled in with a VPN, without considering what the egress c
by remus 7y ago
> I've seen some stupid shit. Like security architects requiring employees to always but always be tunneled in with a VPN, without considering what the egress cost is of an employee surfing YouTube through the VPN.
Actually the cost of this is pretty small. I tend to spend a big part of my day tunneling through a VPN hosted on GCP and almost always have a mix of some sort playing in the background on youtube i.e. fairly high use. Total cost is ~£5/month. It's not free, but I suspect most companies have bigger fish to fry.
- solatic 7y agoI have a feeling (no evidence) that YouTube's systems are smart enough to figure out when a given video clip is a static background for the entire clip, or when playback is in a background tab, and drastically cut down on the amount of video data sent. After all, YouTube has high enough egress costs of its own, and anything to optimize down the egress would, in aggregate, save YouTube a bundle of money.