Why do some people choose to not let mobile users watch youtube videos?

[Mr.jacksaunt]

If you use something like skyfire or chrome you can easily access the desktop version and watch the video.

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[Night Fox]

okay, apparently it's not a setting
but I swear I saw it once in the settings for one of my videos
I can't find it anymore but I'm still convinced that it was a setting at some point

[Blockhead41117]

Ugh why do all of these Youtubers only care about the money?

Greedy, I guess

[Blockzillahead]

it deals with video resolution. when i upload a video at 1920x1080 its unwatchable by mobile devices. 1280x720 or lower is watchable on a mobile device.

Doesn't the resolution get down-scaled?

[DrenDran]

it deals with video resolution. when i upload a video at 1920x1080 its unwatchable by mobile devices. 1280x720 or lower is watchable on a mobile device.

Let that be THEIR problem, if it even is a problem.

[BanishedLetters]

what are you talking about
there are multiple quality settings

just to name an example, the Android YouTube app automatically chooses the highest displayable resolution for HD and 360p/480p(whichever is best fitting?) for SD

i haven't seen this ever happen on android, we're talking about iOS devices. i probably should've been more specific when i said "mobile devices"

[Aces]

You realize all you have to do is run youtube in the browser....

[beachbum111111]

I'm thinking that they uploaded the video in a format that is incompatible with IOS devices. Though I'm probably wrong

[bithead9]

Ugh why do all of these Youtubers only care about the money?

Most "popular" youtubers that upload like 2 videos a day don't have another job, so they want to actually live. (this isn't everyone)

[sorrel]

Use the jasmine app and watch the video anyway