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YouTube to Limit Video Quality Around the World for a Month

  • Videos will default to standard definition worldwide
  • YouTube, Netflix already reduced video quality in Europe
   

Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

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YouTube will reduce the quality of videos around the world starting Tuesday, an effort by the world’s most popular video site to ease internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak.