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At current prices, pledging $5 worth of storage while the app is installed is enough to cache 20 hours of video. It's not too bad.

> the last thing I want is to use some unknown, unpredictably changing residential connection for my videos

YouTube only buffers a handful of seconds. Let's say other users would only be used to buffer 30-60 seconds in the future and if it drops below 15 a fast server is used. Does that solve your worries?

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No. I don't want to stream a video from some dude on a mobile connection heading into a train tunnel. There's simply no upside for me.

Can you give a reason you don't want data from that dude? Because the design I outlined can only make your buffer bigger, never smaller. The absolute worst case of phone guy dropping out still leaves you in the same place youtube puts you by default. So there's no downside.

As for upside, is fewer ads enough to tempt you? That's the easiest one to do if the fast servers need much less bandwidth.

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