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YouTube UI is stretching the limits of browser capabilities for almost no benefit whatsoever. YouTube functionality could be recreated at a fraction of the comp
by jmercouris 6y ago
YouTube UI is stretching the limits of browser capabilities for almost no benefit whatsoever. YouTube functionality could be recreated at a fraction of the computational cost. Try resizing YouTube and a duck duck go image search, which one resizes easier? Which one uses more CPU?
- dijit 6y agoAre you talking about the homepage or a video player? If you mean the video player page then a much fairer comparison is vimeo I suppose, though it definitely does a bit less in terms of recommendations and ads. Definitely faster though.
- boogies 6y agoInvidious (https://invidious.site/watch?v=jzwMjOl8Iyo&dark_mode=true&autoplay=1 https://invidious.site/watch?v=jzwMjOl8Iyo&dark_mode=true&au... does about as much in terms of recommendations/features, and much less in terms of ads and anti-features, I think it is a great comparison.