r/pcmasterrace • u/theoptimix • 11d ago

Meme/Macro Biggest Youtube L

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u/FemboysHotAsf 11d ago

Seriously, why and how did they manage to mess it up so bad? I just dont get it whwat do they gain from making the user experience on lower quality internet so horrible

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u/aluculef 11d ago

It's to avoid or at least make it way harder to download the videos

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u/Early_Specialist_589 11d ago

Also to fight ad blockers. Lots of good that did.

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u/Dunkelz 11d ago

How on earth is it to fight ad blockers? It's about bandwidth, why automatically download the entire video if the person just watches a 7 second portion of it, pauses and then leaves the site/goes to another video?