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		fomine3 on Feb 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do carriers throttle streaming to 480p... I want to opt out Adaptive Streaming entirely from all services. It's better to have buffering time (actually rarely happen) than seeing fucking 480p video.

Beaver117 on Feb 4, 2022 [–]

What? No, I'd much rather see a few seconds of low quality than the stream simply stopping to buffer.

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