Is it just me or does YouTube not look crisp lately? I've tried changing resolution up and down and on both my phone and laptop and it appears to not be the same quality (even for what should be high quality videos e.g. music videos). No buffering/network issues afaik
I am seeing that on WiFi
Some of the carriers restrict to an always 480p mode. Mine does for any video streaming regardless, on the other hand I get unlimited data streaming
Carriers throttle, YouTube detects throttle and drops to 480p. Meaning you can still watch at 720p if you're willing to wait for it to buffer.