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.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    37·
    4 months ago

    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

    • tmpodAEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      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.