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Let's try it. 20 seconds to first start on a M2 mac mini, not amazing. Search takes about 3-5 seconds. Navigate to video another 3-5 seconds. No 4k. No casting. Can't change the playback speed. Can't jump on timeline with 0-9 keys. Doesn't sync to my other devices. Doesn't know about my membership perks, of course.

After a few minutes I would say this is easily the worst way to watch YouTube short of printing the videos out.

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Exactly this. I also expected the app to have the shell UI downloaded locally and only fill it with fetched data, but the slow load times and blank pages make me think it really just is a browser. Somehow worse than your typical Electron app.

The 20 seconds first start is because it is only an x86_64 binary -- no native Arm build.

It's their fault for shipping Chrome instead of shipping HTML.

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