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by astrange 3304 days ago
Remember that 4x slower means (at least) 4x worse battery drain on a phone. In the modern internet there basically is never any excuse to waste resources.
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But it's also on a phone where saving data transfer can give you huge battery benefits. And it's not intentional waste; having this fallback doesn't stop browsers from adding native decoders.