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by stygiansonic 3809 days ago
I believe this is the relevant comment:

"Apologies to all impacted by this transient configuration. Firefox 43 users who do not have h.264 will get 360p VP8 until the configuration is updated early next year. The very large majority of Firefox users watching YouTube have h.264. For them, and for user who get VP9, <video> MSE performs better overall than Flash."
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zeckalpha 3809 days ago
Yeah, but the next comment was:

> "Unfortunately this is not an acceptable state for us. We have many millions of users whose Youtube experience suddenly got significantly degraded, and we're not willing to leave them in that state over the holidays. Any chance you guys could simply roll back the change you guys made? If not, we're forced to ship a Firefox update that lies to you guys about the Firefox version, which really is not a good option for either of us :("

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thawkins 3809 days ago
It can still be "multiple millions" and still be very low percentage numbers, when you are accessing risk you deal with percentages not absolutes.
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