Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
Gabu@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoFor starters, cull the immense amount of duplicated content. Look for some random common word and sort by recent, you’ll see thousands of channels from India, Pakistan and similar nations reposting the exact same videos. There’s also an ungodly amount of spam. These two things alone would, I’d guess, cut down a good chunk of server costs. Another thing is optimizing bitrate, I often get served “1080p” content featuring little more than a static image while browsing in my 6" phone.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Good calls.
I think they’re going hard on the video quality front. Huge channels post videos that are “1080p Premium Bitrate” at max for premium subscribers. Feel like they used to post 4K.
Gabu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
4k and high bitrate 1080p are actually the same thing.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
🤯🤯🤯
How did marketing let engineering NOT name it 4k?!? I’m pretty serious actually
Gabu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s complicated. Essentially, YT spends 24 hours a day trying to dodge the fallout of stupid decisions taken during the previous 24 hours, ad infinitum. They were bashed for certain decisions related to 4k video (which used to be called 4k, then changed to 2160p, then back to 4k, then back to 2160p), leading to the current name scheme.