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		silvestrov 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) When a video is loaded on a Cobalt browser, why can't they redirect to something like youtube.com/cobalt/player/123456 This way they could keep an old html/css/js implementation running alongside the upgraded one.

jtokoph 4 months ago | [–]

I thought the whole thing was a different app at youtube.com/tv

lozenge 4 months ago | | [–]

They do. But the Cobalt version is still used on new TVs and to view new videos with new features, so it can't just be a time capsule.

1718627440 4 months ago | [–]

Then everybody would just try to use that instead of the now common frontend.

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