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by chmod775 1894 days ago
Okay no. This is garbage engineering. And yes I mean that - it doesn't get much worse.

It would be better if this wasn't a site you're supposed to stay hours on.

This embeds a YT video that is streaming in HD quality in the background, even though it's only showing me a gif, so it's already murdering my bandwidth to do something we could achieve with 30kb/s nowadays.

But because that isn't enough, this site is enough to get the fans of my laptop going. I'll probably be adding 20s to every bigger recompilation just to listen to music.

Thanks but fuck no.

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Isn't the YT audio quality tied to the video quality? IIRC, if you tier one down, you do the same to the other.