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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by godelski on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:18PM (#20788743)
Alright, so I should just download a significant portion of YouTube and news websites because I may want to watch those videos randomly? Or I have to wait to get home. Unless we're talking about terabytes of storage on my phone, I don't think this is feasible (for all the video and music I could want at a given time).

Fact is that streaming is just convenient. Like really convenient. I wish there was more stuff that I could download and listen to offline, but it's naive to suggest that streaming has no advantages. We stream while data connected because we download things in an ordered manner (vs how normal downloading is done). That's nice that I don't have to wait for a full movie or song to be completely downloaded to listen to it.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by liability on Saturday August 24, 2019 @02:38PM (#20788882)
Is there any particular reason why your phone or laptop couldn't opportunistically download all the latest videos from your YouTube subscriptions on WiFi while you sleep?

Maybe you don't subscribe to channels and the system could never anticipate your whims and desires... but I wager it would work great for most users.

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Re:Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, ... by godelski on Saturday August 24, 2019 @07:47PM (#20790425)
I subscribe to a lot of things but I'm not quite sold on the predictive algorithms. Mostly because the recommendations I get aren't really what I want. I have this problem with YouTube, Netflix (which used to be spot on), Spotify, and prime. So I'm not sure if I really trust their prediction models.
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