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		mrguyorama on Dec 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Does uBlock Origin bypass the latest YouTube anti-... What was the bandwidth of the stream you were working with back in the 90s? Google targets about 8-10mb/s now for 1080p, right?

jacquesm on Dec 6, 2023 [–]

Considerably less than that. So much so that our 1 Gbps uplink was enough for a few thousand streams. But so much more expensive and with such lousy compression ratio that you could to much better today for less. Apples to apples.

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