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I don't know that it's calling them out to describe a specific business reason behind a decision. It's not unreasonable for a business to adjust to maintain fin
by prawn 7y ago
I don't know that it's calling them out to describe a specific business reason behind a decision. It's not unreasonable for a business to adjust to maintain financial stability, especially for a "free" product served in exchange for ads.
- gundmc 7y agoI'm not sure it would actually save them any money at all. They are still transcoding into the higher quality, so you don't save compute resources. The videos themselves are served from edge CDN nodes. Through peering agreements I doubt Google is paying much for bandwidth. I'm not sure where this would save Google any money. It seems to just be a helpful (if more symbolic) thing to do.