Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

  • DreamySweet
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    602 years ago

    For longer videos, a lot of people will stop watching before the video ends. A lot of bandwidth is wasted by buffering the entire video when the user is only going to watch 50% of it. To save bandwidth, sites like YouTube only buffer a tiny bit at a time.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      92 years ago

      I’m guilty of this. I’ll queue up long music mix or ambient videos and just leave them going.

      • DreamySweet
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        252 years ago

        I meant something like opening a two hour long podcast and only listening to 30-60 minutes before closing the tab or switching to a different video. With the old functionality and current internet speeds, it likely would have buffered the entire video in only a few minutes. It could have wasted multiple GB of bandwidth.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        I’ll open dozens of 15-45min videos, watch a few to completion, close the rest after watching a tiny bit or nothing at all.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Tf thats kind of autistic I used to have a similar problem but I try to keep the list down to like 10-20 cuz be honest if you were truly interested in all 400 of those videos you’d be watching them anyways.

    • 6daemonbag
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      42 years ago

      IIRC YouTube breaks the videos up into chunks to achieve that