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heaversm
Employee
Employee
Status: New idea

Not quite sure how this would work, but I'm imagining a browser setting or flag that users could set to prefer low bandwidth media consumption. Something like "prefers-reduced-motion", but "prefers-low-bandwidth"

In the case of images, it might choose the lowest image in a `srcset`, maybe, regardless of the browser window / agent's parameters. In streaming media, it could prompt or analyze the option to download vs stream in instances where downloading would be advantageous for minimizing bandwidth / energy consumption.

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Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

(Note: similar ideas have been merged into this thread)

IIGoogle
New member

Video Smart Watch or download interruption or download pause/reduced speed function

When I download small files, or any files at all, I watch videos on YouTube or streaming services so that I don't waste time. And it is important not to waste time, and a person tries to win it all the time. So I want when I downloaded a file and watched a video at the same time, the download priority was on the video, and the lower speed on the file, if it is small, so that when I have already finished watching the video I wanted, the file has already been downloaded.

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Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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gltch
Making moves

i used a extension like bandwidth-hero, it processed the images over an server before sending 'em to me.

u also could set the compression rate and if it should be grayscale!
pretty nice.

i'm all in! hopefully y'all find a pretty good solution that helps the user and also is ease on your ressources or doesn't use them at all 🙂

even if i wouldn't need it i still would use it, even the grayscale feature to detox my brain a little while browsin' on youtube.

settings should also be per site basis that override the global configured preset (lets say youtube would get an 50% compression rate and grayscale while pinterest has none and soundcloud 20% without grayscale).

heaversm
Employee
Employee

Thanks - will check out Bandwidth Hero. I think the ability to make things site-specific is a good callout - or maybe universal with site exceptions, like ad-blockers tend to do.