Comment by gethly
3 months ago
No worries. The speed is built into the web browser. YouTube cannot disable it. Meaning, even if they remove the option from the player UI, the functionality cannot be removed. A simple browser extension will therefore always be available to supplement it.
What if they start rendering video in js on canvas with a fully custom solution.
From what I rememebr it is a very inefficient way of doing it, FPS will be a problem and I think properly syncing sound, at least over longer than few seconds, might be even impossible. Either way, it makes very little sense on too many levels to do that.
They can set it back to 1 using javascript any time it is increased though.
Don't be so sure - the company that owns YouTube also probably owns your web browser.