• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    I’m fine with waiting 10 seconds at the beginning of a video. I wonder how much YouTube would save (by reducing bandwidth, smaller caches, choosing slower storage) if they didn’t have the goal to start the video virtually immediately.

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      1 day ago

      That feature isn’t built into YT? I have it set on my browser to where the video needs to be manually started (excluding playlists).

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        15 hours ago

        My point was: You don’t need to wait for it to buffer or even load. Once the page is there, the video is playable.