Is there anyway to limit YouTube video quality?

[airborne]

Is there any app or other way to make YouTube videos viewed in the YouTube app or possibly even in browsers to not go past a certain video quality?

I'm happy with 360p video when watching videos on mobile devices, 720p is just about constant buffering and I don't have enough data anyway to watch at that quality. At this stage I have to change the quality level on just about every video, for crust sake there must be a better way!

 

[goswald]

Log into YouTube and then set the quality, just make sure its not on AUTO.

 

[SZN]

PC:
YouTube
Click on your pic in the top right
Settings icon (the cog)
Playback
Under "Video playback quality", choose "I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video"
Save

Android:
3 dots
Settings
General
Turn on "Limit mobile data usage"

 

[OrbitSA]

You should try Opera Max. It can save up to 50% on data on youtube. Plus it runs in the background and compresses the data on all your other apps as well.

 

[jacques is hier]

I have Opera mini ,is there a big difference with Opera max?

 

[airborne]

How do you force it not to go HD when using the device on WiFi?

Baffles me that something as basic as the video quality can't be preset.

 

[CranialBlaze]

I have Opera mini ,is there a big difference with Opera max?

Ones a **** on compliant browser, the other is a data compression tool

 

[LazyLion]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-high-definition/

By default, YouTube High Definition plays the video in highest resolution automatically for you. But you can also specify YouTube High Definition to play all YouTube videos in a specific video resolution like 4K (2160p), 1440p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p and 144p.

 

[airborne]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-high-definition/

That would be perfect but I need it for mobile and the YouTube app.