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Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

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[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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_Maneuver@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Oreos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should add them to a Playlist to save them for later

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you're not gonna believe this

so I used to make a new set in the bookmarks folder, then I pull all the current tabs into the new set, then I never watched it ever again
there are probably ~400 links in that YouTube Sets folder

[–] Oreos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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.

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