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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by lmm on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:35AM (#10879804)
> Benefit's obvious - getting rid of legacy cruft. It has to be done someday, or by 2030 we'll end up with few kilobyte-long UA strings.

Which will cost how much by the standards of 2030? Particularly given HTTP/2 header compression.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by drdaeman on Monday January 11, 2016 @06:55AM (#10880268)
Getting lower response times isn't a main point here. Getting rid of the cruft is about sanity, not extra milliseconds.

But I'm sure even by 2040 there still will be a lot of places with awful network connectivity, where every kilobyte would still matter.

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