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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Just download the video then.

Youtube stop doing this because people would pause a Multi-Hour long video (such as a music video) download the entire thing, only to then only watch 15 minutes of it because that's the bit they wanted. Massive waste of bandwidth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean “waste of bandwidth”? We’re paying for that through government subsidies and selling our personal data. Are you seriously defending a corporation that made $250 billion last year in ad revenue alone?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is a weird point. Like yes, Google is a government subsidized monopoly. But to keep this feature is a massive waste of resources.

Like from a tech perspective, this should not be done. Like fuck Google can be a thing and will have no impact on that

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

People hate corporations so much that they forget some times they do make smart choices. That bandwidth doesn't just exist from nothing, it's electricity being moved around. The environmental impact, even as infinitesimal as it may be, isn't worth the convenience imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The hypocrisy of this when they're chugging power for AI....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If only there were some middle ground between multi-hours and 30 seconds.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Seriously, load the next 15 minutes, then start loading that when it plays those 15 minutes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The amount of times my video brings unplayable even though it has a few minutes buffered is too damn high. Almost all the times my video gets stuck, is that scenario. Not to say it happens all the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, google lost .3cents of bandwidth. the horror.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was 3 cents in bandwidth (it's not), that's 1.3 billion dollars in additional costs. You want more ads to pay for that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And thats probably a rounding error in googles costs.

For a much more usable, enjoyable experience.

That you're arguing against, because wont someone think of poor googles downtrodden finances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Billion dollar costs aren't rounding errors even at YouTube/Google's scale. They're a measurable percentage of total revenue. I agree that it slightly improves the user experience, it's hard to imagine a worse cost/benefit tradeoff from an engineering perspective even at more realistic costs. It's especially hard to justify when there's an easy alternative for users in the form of downloading videos.