Videos
out of the big 3 (excluding Safari)
i need a super duper light weight browser only to watch yt vids (and which supports ublock damn it)
don't ask why lol, just a browser to watch vids thats it
I currently have a PC with 4GB of RAM, an AMD E 450 and its integrated graphics and I was looking for the best method to watch YouTube with a graphical interface. I know it exists from the terminal but there is no graphical interface, so I wanted to know which browser or program you recommend. Before I was using Firefox but it only reached 144p, then I switched to Falcon and it reached 720p. I wanted to know if there was something else. By the way, I use Alpine Linux.
Hi everyone,
I’m curious about how YouTube’s offline video functionality works in web browsers. Here’s what I’ve observed and would love to get some technical insights from the community.
Recently, I downloaded a video from YouTube using the web version. The video is quite long—about 3 hours—and I was able to watch it offline without any issues once it was downloaded. What puzzles me is that despite the video’s large size, the browser’s cache and storage didn’t show a significant increase in size.
Web browsers typically have storage limits for offline data such as cookies, cache, and local storage, often ranging around 5 MB for these purposes. Given this limit, I’m wondering how YouTube manages to allow such large video downloads and playback in a browser. I’ve tested this across different browsers, and it works perfectly.
Some technical points I’m interested in:
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How does YouTube circumvent browser storage limits to enable large video downloads? Is it using some form of server-side storage or special techniques?
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What mechanisms are in place to manage and retrieve these offline videos without significantly affecting local storage?
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Are there any JavaScript or web API methods YouTube employs to handle this efficiently?
I would really appreciate any technical explanations or insights into how this works.
Disclaimer: I don’t have YouTube Premium. I’ve noticed that in my current country (where YouTube is automatically set to a local version), I’m able to download videos and watch them offline without ads. This could be due to the fact that there are fewer advertisers here, and many people don’t speak English or use Latin script.
Thanks in advance for your help!
So youtube just looks like this for me (above image). It's only on one specific google account in Google Chrome. Let's call the non-working Google Account "Account A". If I switch the google account to "Account B" OR if I use "Account A" in the Safari browser on the same laptop, it works fine. Also on my other PC laptop "Account A" works in Chrome.
At first... it will load my subscription page and maybe one or two video page without issue, but every subsequent page I load stops fully loading and looks like some version the above image. If I restart the computer I can get Youtube to load okay for about 1 or 2 pages, after that this starts to happen again.
I'm not sure if this is a "bug" but I couldn't find a better described flair
Fairly clear, but my question is why does it allow any old browser but somehow forbid the app? Surely it can't be worse to use an App which may just not have some functions than a Browser of which it seems to totally not care which and how old ...
Thanks