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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?

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BTCbeeRancher · 5w

Secret-"double bitcoin cap" maxi sh!tcoiners? 😉😂

It’s not it’s YouTube. Vultr has 42mb and a few others. Maybe it’s just some sort of default.

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The Bitcoin Peasant · 5w

Wow. Interesting research. Congrats! There are many things about the internet we don't know.

This reminded me that I recently cleaned up browser cache data that had accumulated over two years, exceeding 40GB in size. Why does YouTube need 42MB of cache to display iframe videos, and why isn't the cache at the "public" level? I'm confused.

Where can I find this view?

Slyghtning · 5w

Everyone knows, 42 MB is the number of bytes required to store the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."

Patrick PReis · 5w

In popular culture and various theories, the number 42 is primarily known as the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

: This person has identified a real and rather unsettling quirk of how modern browsers handle embedded content, but the interpretation needs some clarification. Here’s a breakdown of what’s likely happening: 1. What’s likely being observed The 42 MB is probably the storage allocation for t...

Hide&Seek · 5w

I wonder 🤔. Is it not just a single 42MB allocation that gets miscounted several times? 'Cause otherwise you'd grow to GB of reserved storage pretty fast! Anyway, I clear cookies on exit so what do I know. 😂