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I’ve always wondered why the embeds don’t do this asynchronously themselves, either as a default or with a flag. The amount of resources these embeds automatically consume is egregious. It seems so odd to tell the world to apply a fix for a platform you own.


Part of it tracking to run better ads on YouTube and other Google properties, probably worth it money wise.


They do lazy load by default now, at least.




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