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It truly is a terribly site, in terms of performance. Streaming HD content used to be the "hard problem", but now it's displaying the site hosting the videos that the issue.

You can stream HD content on the lowest end device, or hardware almost 10 years old. The same hardware just isn't powerful enough to let you use the YouTube website in a performant way. I cannot fathom how YouTube doesn't see that as a problem.

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How many people, especially among the best advertising demographics, have 10 year old hardware? I have had 6 computers in that timeframe and 4 phones.

Running a 2012 Mac Mini as a HTPC. It's been wonderful for anything h.264 and has no problems even playing 4K files (h.264, it chokes on 265 of course).

But YouTube is increasingly becoming unusable to the point where I just youtube-dl what I want to watch in advance.

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