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SCdF on Jan 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video

That's so weird, why would the comments of all things require flash!?

calebegg on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

Probably because it's easier than long polling and more widely supported than web sockets.

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