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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by dahdum on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:57AM (#12661640)
> That it technically works on other browsers is a requirement but optimizing for the competition's browsers is not something I imagine management allocates hours for.

Youtube exists to sell ads, and a slow browsing experience on any device or browser does not serve that goal. So while Chrome may be their default testing environment, there's a very strong incentive to have it work well across the board.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by MyMan1 on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:08PM (#12661750)
Say in the YouTube app you perform a search for a song. The results come back very quickly and the first result is what you want so you tap it. An ad starts to play. Except its not an ad. Its a video from the advertised spot above your search results - wait a minute you didn't click that. So you go back and realize, it loads 1 second after your search results and pushes them downwards, so your tap ends up on the advertisement that wasn't even rendered yet. Hm.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by dahdum on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:22PM (#12662319)
That might drive short term revenue but would drive down their CPM/CPC rates and user engagement longer term. I don't think Google's culture is conducive to playing those sorts of tricks.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in We... by nitrogen on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:24PM (#12663291)
Maybe they don't do it on purpose, maybe they A/B test their way into a black hole of emergent anti-patterns.
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