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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by babuskov on Monday January 11, 2016 @03:12AM (#10879527)
It really depends on your usage patterns. I watch YT mostly for audio in the videos. Either it's music or some documentary or interviews or shows like This Week in Startups. Video is really not important and I don't want to waste my bandwidth on it. I watch all videos at 360p by default and only increase it manually when I really need to see the detail.

I also know a lot of people who just start a playlist with music and leave YT in the background the whole day. They don't even have that tab active in the browser.

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Re:YouTube change served lower-quality video to Firefox 43 f... by joonoro on Monday January 11, 2016 @04:11AM (#10879716)
I was going to reply to you by saying that Youtube audio quality is affected by video quality, but apparently that hasn't been the case anymore since 2013. The more you know!

http://www.h3xed.com/web-and-internet/youtube-audio-quality-...

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