Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

  • DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    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.