• wischi@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    They do that to save bandwidth and money. It’s not your bandwidth they are trying to save, it’s theirs because streaming so many videos to so many people costs money. So they are trying to be sneaky and use lower quality settings as often as possible to reduce cost.

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      1 year ago

      I wonder what the total of data transmission is for an average day on YouTube. It’s got to be in the petabytes.