Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

  • bela@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s to relieve load on the server. Most people won’t watch the video even nearly to the end. No point sending them all that data.

    With youtube’s compression a 4k video easily fits into some decent ram. Depending on length, of course. Though it’s still a waste of ram, and too much for potatoes.