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They probably do it, but Google is at fault, too. Their new DASH thing has made the experience so much poorer. They never should've done it to begin with, and I
by higherpurpose 13y ago
They probably do it, but Google is at fault, too. Their new DASH thing has made the experience so much poorer. They never should've done it to begin with, and I don't think whatever savings in bandwidth they might have from it are worth the compromise.
Youtube was perfect before, because it allowed you to cache videos, and go back on the videos whenever you wanted, with no need for reloading or whatever. DASH made it a much worse experience, at it only caches like a few seconds at most in front of the streaming, and it won't even allow you to go back in the video without reloading it again.
- rhizome 13y agoAll of that is required by their advertising business model. The more YouTube emulates the pre-VCR TV world, the more they can charge for time and visibility.
- sumedh 13y ago> because it allowed you to cache videos, Youtube has to pay for that bandwidth usage even if you dont watch the cached video later.
- christianmann 13y ago> go back in the video whenever you wanted without reloading That's even more bandwidth that they have to pay for unnecessarily.
- username223 13y agoI wouldn't know. YouTube is actually not so bad now if you block Flash, save the videos via the HTML5 interface, and watch them at your leisure.