Some users are having major quality issues with YouTube streaming right now

Back to 2000s: Over the last week, multiple users have reported that YouTube is not meeting its usual quality standards. Some videos and Shorts display as a garbled, pixelated mess. The company is aware of the problem and is working on a fix, but does not know what is causing the quasi-outage. Over the past few days, many viewers have reported that YouTube seems to have gone back to the digital stone age. The 20-year-old video-sharing platform struggles to provide optimal, or even moderately decent, streaming quality, resorting to the lowest video resolutions despite users having ample network bandwidth. Some users have suffered this weird quality issue for days, degrading their watching experience to 360p and sometimes 144p resolutions. Manually bumping up the quality to 1080p has helped in some instances. However, others have found that doing that results in endless buffering. At least a fraction of users complain that YouTube simply refuses to stream at a decent quality, no matter ... Read full article.