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Am I crazy or it looks like every single webpage that ever embeds a YouTube iframe in any way gets a 42MB of disk space used forever associated with it?
The web is some crazy dystopia. Websites I don't remember visiting ever have this YouTube garbage in it.
I guess in the past it would be a single 42MB of YouTube for your entire browser, but this situation got worse when browsers decided to treat iframes as different origins even if they have the same domain name as long as they're embedded in different places.
Why on earth they need 42MB after all? Why specifically this number, always?
Published at
2026-02-02 19:13:14 UTCEvent JSON
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