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Related anecdote: Just a couple days ago I was watching YouTube and the videos kept defaulting to 480p quality and not automatically increasing to a higher one
by flanbiscuit 3y ago
Related anecdote:
Just a couple days ago I was watching YouTube and the videos kept defaulting to 480p quality and not automatically increasing to a higher one. This was on my home network that is definitely able to handle a higher quality stream. I was able to manually set it to 720p (good enough for watching on my laptop) and it didn't flip back. This happened a few times in a row that I found it odd. I then thought it might be ad blocking related so I disabled uBlock Origin for YouTube and then everything worked fine after that. Coincidence? Maybe, I need to try this a few more times to see.
- bitvoid 3y agoThere's an extension called Enhancer for YouTube (and probably others) that allows you to automatically set the quality without needing to do it manually. If your default quality setting is higher than a video offers, it'll choose the highest available. There's also other features like automatically expanding the video, converting Shorts to normal videos, automatically expanding the description, automatically hiding chat for live streams, etc.