cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/50662684
Did you all noticed from recently that youtube is giving only lov quality opcion (360p) in mozilla firefox, despite youtuber uploaded that video in high quality (1080p)…?
I think this is another move where they are using monopoly to ruin firefox and leave only chrome as only webbrowser…
First time i thought hm this is strange why is this video in so poor quality and i saw that only 360p opcion iz awailable. This youtuber for sure wouldnt upload video in this bad quality so i copied the link and pasted it in another browser chrome and it showed in 1080p and good quality and everything was normal. So i think its must be on purpose to ruin firefox.
The only shady shit I see is Google deliberately buggering at the start of a video then have the gaul to show a popup saying “expericing issues? Click here to tshoot” when we both know its googles own antiadblock detection trying to annoy you.
I’m a Firefox user and no. I still have 1080p available. The only thing I noticed, that the comments moved to the right side and the suggestions got removed. Comments on the right side do suck hard though and on most comments, I can’t expand them.
ReVanced had recently some problems, stopping playback after 30 seconds.
Just download what you want to watch, fuck em!
Are you watching videos right after they’re uploaded? Iirc Youtube takes a bit longer to make 1080p available, so there’s a bit of time after upload when it only has lower options.
Also, I’m using Chromium, and Youtube sometimes just gives me the 360p version, but the 1080p is available to switch to. But it’s been doing that since forever.
edit: misspelled longer as lower
No am not watching videos afther they are uploaded, it happeneds for the videos months old and years old…
Firefox with youtube on in the background. Just looked and it’s 1080p.
Yea for most videos it probably is but for a lot of them it started doing this. If i copy the link, paste it in Brave for example (same web engine as google chrome) and it shows all the opcions from 1080p to 360p it clearly isnt problem with video, in in youtube chosing to work diferently depending on the browser…
YT stopped working for me completely some time ago. I just load the first minute of any video and they dies. I set up metube to download videos from few channels automatically and I watch them in Jellyfin.
Hm interesting, i use Lbry it works like torrent youtube… When ever i can but unfortinetly its not that popular as youtube.
I use morph and it works like a charm.
YouTube dislikes my set up so much I cannot search on the site. Have to search videos on a search engine and then follow the link. I never see a single ad due to UBO. A lot of videos show as unavailable and ask for a log in. I just download any videos I want to watch as mp4. Fuck YouTube
Not noticed this, still get 4k. YouTube doesn’t do HDR on Firefox though…
I haven’t had it only give me lower quality options, but awhile back I noticed it was always defaulting to lower quality so I installed the YouTube High Definition extension. Haven’t had an issue since.
Huh. One more reason to sail the high sees. I am so invidious >:D
No I can still get the higher resolutions but they look meh because the bitrate is low in the free tier. Also there’s always a delay when starting a video in firefox.
I only use Firefox and I haven’t noticed this at all. A video I was just watching went all the way up to 2k resolution. Closest I’ve seen to this was a YT to mp4 converter that couldn’t go above 360p.
It must be a day of the week.
Works on my machine
Yea i dont say that its like this for every video, but it started happening from recently and now it happenedes offten. Majority of videos are stil in normal resolucion but just saying whats happening and it shows the direction they are headed to…
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