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Facebook/YouTube don't care about how their compressed video looks. They just need it in the format so that they can get in front of their millions of user's eyballs. I'd be willing to bet that >95% of users don't "care" about compression quality. They just want the content, hence their decisions. There's just no way to properly encode that much content with a "we care about compression" thoughts.



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