YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe

Posted by pseudolus on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:10PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/20/21187930/youtube-reduces-streaming-quality-european-union-coronavirus-bandwidth-internet-traffic

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Re:YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe by oblio on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:37PM (#26612313)

This is from a year ago, at the peak of the initial Covid outbreak. None of the big streaming services have limitations, anymore.

What's this article doing on the front page now?

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Re:YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe by lucb1e on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:44PM (#26612378)

Dang: since the current title is misleading (written in the present tense, but it's something that happened more than a year ago in response to the COVID outbreak), is flagging the story the correct way to get mod attention and have 2020 be put in the title?

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Re:YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe by ESchack on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:37PM (#26612310)

Article is from Mar 20, 2020

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Re:YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe by tyfon on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:36PM (#26612302)

sigh

Well, anyone know a firefox plugin that forces the quality to max automatically?

I don't want to have to click the quality button for every new video that plays.

Good thing I have Youtube premium or this would be even more annoying to wait for the commercial to click the button.

Edit: I see this is an old article. Strangely I have not had mine set to lower quality automatically on any devices here. Norway btw

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Re:YouTube joins Netflix in reducing video quality in Europe by OisinMoran on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:37PM (#26612308)

Should have 2020 in the title.

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