[FussyZeus]

> But even as they discover the joys of YouTube, their experience is not great on slower connections and less powerful mobile phones.

Why not just make this the norm? Websites do not need to be 6 MB per page (and that's with an adblocker). Google is one of the worst offenders when it comes to website bloat, including their once-famously incredibly simple search page which is now jam packed with tons of features, both requested and the majority not requested by anyone.

The notion that an HTML 5 web page requires so much extra fluff to accomplish something as simple as streaming video with recommended links and a comments section is maddening.

Just because some of us have bigger, faster phones with more bandwidth doesn't mean you need to make things more complicated.