#at least priateing lets me download the whole thing

[cy-cyborg]

You know how in the early days of the internet, you had to pause long videos so that they could fully load to avoid it freezing and buffering?

Can companies stop removing that feature, please? Not everyone has good or consistent internet and that feature is still needed. My partner and I just rented a movie because we've been wanting to watch it, and it wasn't on any of the streaming services available in Australia. We paid $6 for it, and we can't watch it because it freezes every few minutes, and it doesn't appear to allow it to load ahead of time, since pausing did nothing.

Youtube does it now too, it'll only load a little bit ahead, so we still end up having to pause and give it a second on longer videos. Even if you leave it paused for an hour it'll still only load a few minutes ahead of where you are.

Tech companies, streaming platforms, entertainment companies, whoever, if youre going to force people to use online streaming to access your stuff, at least make it actually usable for folks outside of US cities, we dont all have speedy/stable internet, stuff like this is still needed.