Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

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      1 year ago

      Some people’s internet and hard drives would be crippled by this. It’s to promote multitasking mostly. There are ways to download videos that I won’t get into, but it is possible if you desperately want to buffer the whole video. I do think it’s stupid to lock offline video downlaods behind a subscription paywall, but I am small fry and will do what I can.

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        1 year ago

        Not at all. If your hard drive would get crippled by a few GBs then I don’t know what to tell you. When the playback is stopped, and the application closed, then the temporary files are discarded.

        The argument about bandwidth usage is accurate though. I didn’t make sense to buffer the whole video when it might not be watched anyways.