> That’s not going to transform it from “something unwatchable” to the higher bitrate video you want. YouTube is very aggressive about switching to bad quality

> That’s not going to transform it from “something unwatchable” to the higher bitrate video you want. YouTube is very aggressive about switching to bad quality if it thinks the connection is bad, which happens often due to transient issues on cell networks or occasionally wifi. All of a sudden a video will drop to 240p, for instance, reminding me "ah, it reset itself to 'auto', I never ever want 'auto'". A minute of buffering isn't enough to make an incredibly slow connection fast. But a minute (or potentially less) of buffering is enough to paper over transient connection issues.