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I don't think it can all be put down to Adobe. YouTube can work perfectly one day, then be horrible the next. Quality really started to go down in the past few years, to be honest. Adobe isn't innocent, but I think Google's screwing it up too.

Both of them are busy ruining the user experience.

Glassed Silver:mac
 
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