A new 144p video mode has appeared on YouTube

Congestion on some Google CDN servers has recently led to a decrease in the speed of downloading / caching YouTube videos. It got to the point that the video in normal quality can be viewed without “brakes” only with the help of a third-party program, saving the video file to a computer.

The hack with the blocking of the most loaded CDNs has become popular, which allows individual users to speed up downloading videos from YouTube, but is not acceptable to everyone.
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Google itself understands the problem and takes steps to unload the CDN a little. A couple of days ago a new video quality mode appeared on YouTube: 144p . It is suitable for users on a thin channel.

YouTube videos available as 240p to 4K. Now this range is extended downwards. The quality of 144p will help those users who have problems with download / caching speed or watching videos from a mobile device, where the tariff for megabytes is valid.

YouTube is used by many as a large record library, that is, just for listening to music. Recently even the real youtube-radio You.fm , which works in the style of Pandora, has appeared. Specify in the search line the name of the artist or group - and the list of music tracks from YouTube is displayed on the screen, you can listen to them directly in the browser, but the video here is an optional bonus.

All you need to remember is that the sound on YouTube is getting worse along with the degradation of the video (thanks, gonzzza ):

1080p >> 192 kbps >> AAC
720p >> 192 kbps >> AAC
480p >> 128 kbps >> AAC
360p >> 128 kbps >> AAC
240p >> 64 kbps >> MP3

So far, the new quality mode 144p has appeared only on some videos.