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A comment on GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts. Parent comment

Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by fpoling on Sunday January 30, 2022 @07:11AM (#30136422)
Unmetered is often means 1 Gbit. With 4K video that means less than 100 streams. It may work, but the moment the video is shared among friends the site can be in trouble.

Plus YouTube handles all re-encoding and adjust the quality based on the speed and device.

It is possible to do it with open-source components, but it requires a server farm and just not feasible using single cheap private server or VPS.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by account42 on Monday January 31, 2022 @05:36AM (#30146588)
> and adjust the quality based on the speed and device.

Now if only browsers would implement native HLS and/or DASH support then every site could have this without having to package a bunch of JS with different quirks of reach site.

Of course, it is not really in Google's interest to help YouTube competitors so this is unlikely to happen for Chrome.

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Re:GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by us... by crtasm on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:06PM (#30139469)
If you're hosting a handful of videos a single server will be fine to encode and serve them.
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