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> Hard as in loading youtube URL and go for a coffee.

You can't even to that now. Youtube videos buffer about 1m30 of videos and stops after that :(

I understand that Google is doing this to save an immense amount of wasted bandwidth. These days if I need to wait for something to load, I use youtube-dl.

At the time, I wrote an Chrome extension that would select the lowest resolution (240p at the time), but I can't remember if it was capable of autoplay.

My train commute into work is the perfect place to brush up with Duolingo. Shame it randomly goes through patches of no signal, as this makes Duolingo fairly unusable. I have to time my practice to fit into the areas I know it’ll work in.

If you're looking for an alternative to Duolingo, give Memrise a try. It allows you to download entire lessons for offline use.