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by lelandfe 1459 days ago
> Streaming is a tiny portion of what the web is used for.

By bandwidth, streaming is what the majority of the web is used for. PDF warning: https://www.sandvine.com/hubfs/downloads/phenomena/2018-phen...

> Video is almost 58% of the total downstream volume of traffic on the internet

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But video is probably the most data-intensive thing most people interact with. How many webpages, books, songs, pdfs is equivalent to a 4 minute 1080p Youtube video?