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I'm on gigabit fibre, so not sure why they would do that.I have noticed that though.
What I've noticed is the resolution isn't necessarily lower, but the amount of detail and texture is lower
They do that to save bandwidth and money. It's not your bandwidth they are trying to save, it's theirs because streaming so many videos to so many people costs money. So they are trying to be sneaky and use lower quality settings as often as possible to reduce cost.
I wonder what the total of data transmission is for an average day on YouTube. It's got to be in the petabytes.
I suspect that they can detect ad blockers in more cases than they try to block them. They could do that to "divert" the ad blocker/ad blocker blocker arms race. Assuming you're blocking ads. If not, then it's a moot point.
I'm in IT and I find it annoying to have to update my scripts and such every time they push new anti-adblock measures. A friend of mine who is perfectly tech savvy has not bothered updating his and is getting ads on everything now.
Just imagine the number of people who are completely clueless or are just so ~~brainwashed~~ used to ads that they don't even care- I'd be surprised to find functioning ad blocking on over 15% or so on videos served on YouTube. Maybe 20% because that's kind of the economic cut-off point for when it starts hurting and they do anything about it on Google's part.
Take this with a grain of salt because it's what some guy on the internet (me) "remembers reading something about, once", but adblock rates on the general internet, were around 3% or something similar (can't be bothered, please look it up yourself)
Therefore, I really wouldn't hope for such an insane number as 15% on YouTube.
We are not the primary users. Your uncles, aunts, nephews and nieces are. The shopkeeper in the corner store. Your teacher. Your 50 year old doctor.
I felt 15% was exaggerated, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised by your estimate at all either.