If you keep changing the quality to 720p etc and back, it tricks Youtube for a few minutes, but its a hassle.

If the creator automatically changed the quality setting as soon as the vid starts to buffer, it would only be a minor skip in the vid.

Youtube also just demonetized large swaths of providers they dont like and likely keeping the money like they done to Russel Brand.

I think Youtube is having financial issues as the advertisers are finding out about Ad Block/Badger etc. Coupled with adpocalypse and economy, the advertisers are thinning out.

The only reason I hunted for an app/ad on, is that Youtube became a blight of commercials that simply became untenable.

Maybe the elites/Govs = facism are sick of paying their legacy media and youtube for their propaganda?