Websites try to aggressively optimize your content for lower bandwidth, so they compress it using lossy algorithms.
Ad networks want to represent the ad content clearly so they are not as aggressive about it.
The irony is sites who care that much about performance kill their own performance by adding these slow ad networks. It’s wild how much ads ruin your load times.
Net neutrality. Something that was trampled over in the wake of fascism and never given a second thought.
Showing content costs them money, showing ads makes them money. Simple as
It’s mostly been explained.
Basically it’s content delivery networks. Caching. That ad, from start to finish, has been queued up and loaded and played for thousands of people near you. This is less frequently the case with some show that you’re streaming.
It’s the same reason that if you were to go watch trending YouTube videos, they will load up a lot faster than if you find some niche YouTube video from 12 years ago that no one’s watched in a decade.
its probably the video codec, ads also tend to be very short and are capable of fully buffering, unlike videos, so they can often manage to send properly, compared to a video.
Really efficient video codecs tend to be a real bitch on lower end hardware.
I’ve seen a couple mentions of YouTube in this thread. Not sure if this is source inspiration of your meme, but in case…
The Roku TV YT app has been heavily enshitified in the last 6-8 months. Keep in mind, ads on this format (CTV) typically run $12-35 per 1,000 views.
They are bit rate throttling content and it most commonly occurs on content one year or older. YT has a dismissible call to action to upgrade to premium to remove this experience.
When you pause, the app shows a display ad sidebar to the paused video.
When the TV goes into initial sleep mode after a longer pause the YT app will lose the current video and land you back on the home page.
My experience is with using the YT app on Roku TV unauthenticated.
