The browser used to pull every cover straight from Google, so a search grid
plus infinite scroll fired dozens of cross-origin image requests and started
coming back as 429. Covers now go through /api/youtube/thumbnail, which
resizes the upstream URL, caches the bytes in memory, collapses duplicate
in-flight fetches, caps the concurrency against Google and backs off when it
answers 429. Responses are immutable for a month and revalidate with an ETag,
and serving them same-origin also lets the accent extractor read the pixels.
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