Video playback is also trash on most sites besides youtube when on mobile. I can be on excellent wifi connected to excellent internet where a desktop browser gets to play the video almost instantly, but mobile chrome will barely show the video. It'll show me empty black boxes, maybe a disabled video position control. It'll sit there like that for a good 30 seconds, then maybe play a 30 second ad, then finally the 1 m…
Completely agree, but I'm curious about why. Why is it that even embedded Youtube videos often fail to play in a browser, but if you click the "view in Youtube" button and go to the [desktop or mobile] Youtube site they work fine? What's Youtube's special sauce?