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by mike_hock 1044 days ago
There's nothing in there that wasn't obvious to the engineers who implemented the throttling.

1. Solve the challenge the same way the browser would. By actually running the JS code.

2. Segmented downloading. Pretty sure they allow that on purpose so starting or resuming a video feels snappy.

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> Pretty sure they allow that on purpose so starting or resuming a video feels snappy.

Also for switching to a different bitrate stream seamlessly.