• brian@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Curious as to why that would be the case. Unless people are starting videos, letting them buffer, then reloading and doing it again.

    It should be the same amount of bandwidth, otherwise, right?

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      3 months ago

      It’s just people not finishing videos. Buffered but never played. In aggregate it adds up to a lot.

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        3 months ago

        Seems like a reasonable streaming service should add an option to manually make a video buffer more so that people intending to watch it after it buffers can, but reasonable streaming services don’t seem to exist anymore.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah i dont use youtube like that either but lots of people open videos and close them without finishing them because loss of interest or attention or whatever.

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      3 months ago

      People opening 8 hour long music videos, then pausing them after half an hour and just keeping it open while they do something else.

      Then they come back after multiple hours and just close the browser.