In short: Money

Long story: Legacy

The really long story: They added a bunch of stuff in that version and it’s the last LTS before they removed a bunch of other stuff and a lot of companies are just too lazy to update their 10 year old crappy software.

The end.

I mean sure, OP’s title is somewhat clickbaity but it’s kind of true though.

Somewhat? Did you read the issue? Here’s a recap: yt-dlp will introduce a proper JS runtime in the future to better cope with YT’s JS. That’s it… that’s the issue.

YouTube have broken compatibility with all existing unofficial clients.

Get this: YT will not be working on any known/popular VPN without signing in because it will always display: “Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot”

This behavior is also completely unrelated to the above mentioned issue and is unchanged for a very long time.

This post’s title is just completely incorrect and it looks like 700+ people didn’t even read the comments or the actual issue for one minute.

Good job guys!

Before opening this article… Let me guess? Texas

Update: Yep Texas

Well Google said otherwise when they removed support for it: https://storage.googleapis.com/avif-comparison/index.html

However I’m not sure how trustworty their own statistic is.

On the other hand Mozilla’s PoV:

neutral - JPEG-XL includes features and performance that might differentiate it from other formats, but the benefits it provides are not significant enough on their own to justify the cost of adding another C++ image decoder to browsers. A memory-safe decoder would reduce these costs considerably, and we are open to shipping one that meets our requirements.

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

So AV1 is clearly the winner here, also because it can be used for videos and not just images.

But they were, all of them, deceived

For another format was made.

Sorry but I don’t believe anything until it’s from a reliable source and this person is definetly not one.

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Sounds like a 4% of world population problem.

From my perspective: So far the best SOAP that I ever watched. The episode yesterday with the gun sidestory was insane.