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.

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IIRC, it could be an encoding thing. They've nerfed their old video encoding to push the newer format that is more "data efficient" (read: looks like shit). They've stopped hosting higher quality "legacy" encoded vids.

It's why sometimes in FreeTube when YouTube decides to cut off the stream they're not getting ads from, it'll switch protocols and reload with the 360p-only encoding.

Not sure what would lock you into legacy formats in FireFox, though.

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