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Strange move, people use adblockers for a reason, 2-3 unskipable bs ads. Instead better limit quality to 480/720p. This way they'll save money for traffic. No a
by Moldoteck 3y ago
Strange move, people use adblockers for a reason, 2-3 unskipable bs ads. Instead better limit quality to 480/720p. This way they'll save money for traffic. No adblocker?, Can go up to 1080p. Yt premium?, Welkome to 4k. Yt premium+?, Welcome to >8k
- tetris11 3y agoIts not worth it. You don't watch YouTube videos for the fancy graphics, you listen to it for the commentary with some visual guides. 480p is more than enough for most
- shostack 3y agoI watch a lot of gaming videos or instructional videos that benefit from better resolution when viewing on my iPad. It is beyond aggravating I can't set them to at least 1024 by default.
- acdha 3y agoYou might not, but there’s a ton of great content where the quality is very noticeable – anything related to nature, astronomy, sports, the tons of niche genres which involve looking at real world things in detail like rail fans, building/architecture fans, bird watchers, etc. is really unpleasant to watch at 480p. That’s the size of an iPad icon! Stuff like conference talks, of course, really don’t matter but there’s so much material that no generalization won’t be inaccurate for millions of watchers.
- blooalien 3y agoAt least 720p if a screencast is involved (educational videos). 480p screen text often becomes nearly unreadable mush.
- Moldoteck 3y agoimo it's woth it not for the sake of user conversion, but for the sake of minimizing the cost for network load. Technically they'll have the same revenue, but profit will increase due to optimizing the delivery and since most yt users dont have premium I believe this can be a big chunk of money
- Rebelgecko 3y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23612647/youtube-1080p-premium-subscription-bitrate https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/23/23612647/youtube-1080p-pr...
- cruano 3y ago> This way they'll save money for traffic If people leave because of this that cuts their costs to zero. What's their incentive not to do this ?