Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images
Youtube replaced unicode emojis with fucking images
Some time ago, I noticed that youtube comments are copied without emojis, thought nothing of that - bugs happen - but today I finally decided to find out why and what the hell is even this.
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it's because on web people would get different designs according to which operating system is used. Marketing prefers uniformity. They could load a webfont, but color font support is not really universal and because people use always the same 10 emojis it's faster to load only those cached pngs compared to a full webfont with 3000 emojis that aren't even used in that specific page
The web font would also be cached, and it wouldn't be that big of a resource in the first place. I think being able to copy a comment's content is more important, but whatever.
But I'm INFURIATED tho!