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		brookst 65 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to ... I would be surprised if browsers actually cashed the entirety of videos, even if the cash policy allows for it. That does seem like a way to thrash SSD.

rasz 65 days ago [–]

They did before switch to no-cache, and I bet they are back at it now. Chrome used to roughly write as much as I watched at ~2-3GB per hour.

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