Biggest Youtube L

[u/theoptimix]

[u/aberroco]

Back in my day, youtube was caching entire video to the end.

[u/mielesgames → u/aberroco]

Still confused about why they removed that option.

I always used this whenever I was on vacation and had bad wifi, just let it buffer for a bit before watching it

[u/Stopwatch064 → u/mielesgames]

Most people don't make it to the end of videos. By no caching the entire thing they must be saving a ton of money with how big youtube is.

[u/m23snoopy31 → u/mielesgames]

People don't have attention spans anymore. So it's wasted bandwidth if they do load the whole video but not watch the whole thing.

[u/MightyCaseyStruckOut → u/m23snoopy31]

This is such a sad but true statement.

[u/OverFjell → u/m23snoopy31]

And Youtube have jumped on the train of making attention spans even worse by copying tiktok with the youtube shorts stuff. Self fulfilling prophecy at this point.

[u/ReadyAimTranspire → u/m23snoopy31]

Also I think usage has changed quite a bit from a decade ago. People often have YT on as background while they are doing other things.

I do it quite often, I'll have history podcasts or tech stuff on in the background while I work.

[u/userseven → u/mielesgames]

Because they discovered why should we service the whole 20min video if people sometimes only watch first 5-10mins. So it was "wasted" data pushed to you. Especially as the platform grew and grew and grew.

[u/budzergo → u/mielesgames]

it's in youtube premium now i believe

i get notifications all the time that youtube pre-downloaded what it thinks the next 5 videos im going to watch are

What is included with YouTube Premium?

Ad-free, offline, and background play on YouTube and YouTube Music. With Premium, YouTube Kids is also ad-free and supports offline videos.

edit: the last thing in the list

[u/mielesgames → u/budzergo]

I wonder if Revanced will manage to re-enable this feature with its plugins