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Re:New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model by oarsinsync on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:17PM (#20442958)
Not the perfect solution, but I think changing your user-agent to iOS makes youtube deliver x264 instead of vp9
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Re:New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model by PascLeRasc on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:21PM (#20443019)
This Chrome extension will do it in a cleaner way: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h264ify/aleakchihd...
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Re:New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model by oarsinsync on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:35AM (#20448437)
Does anyone know of a similar Safari extension? Battery life remains a concern, and switching from vp9 to x264 is great, but then having to deploy Chrome instead feels like a 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards situation.
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