YouTube plans to reduce the quality of its videos all over the world during the spread of the coronavirus. It is an attempt of one of the most popular services today to prevent the platform from crashing or saturation due to user traffic, which will definitely increase dramatically these days. According to the company, users will first see standard quality videos. This means that videos will still be able to be watched in high quality, but they will have to choose them through the options menu. YouTube has already implemented this solution in Europe, along with other streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. European Union regulators have called applications to limit their use of bandwidth. The use of broadcast services has increased dramatically as hundreds of millions of users have been forced into their homes to stop and contain the spread of COVID-19, the virus that started in Wuhan, China. Although YouTube sees at night a significant increase in the number of users…
