[jkyle]

Paywall.

USAToday is covering the story without paywall. [1]

Quick read indicates they aren't 'throttling' they're serving lower quality (e.g. smaller) videos to mobile users so as not to use up their data plan as much while they develop a feature allowing users to select their own stream quality in app.

Seems reasonable enough.

They should have been more up front about it though.

Edit

Ok, now I'm confused. How does this story relate to the existing feature to lower your streaming quality? [2]

1. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/03/25/netflix-t...

2. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87

[_ea1k]

Unfortunately those settings affect all devices and all connection methods. That often isn't desirable.

Newer versions have a mobile data saver option, but I don't think they have rolled this out to everyone.

It is a pretty annoying problem and I've never understood why they don't just provide the user with some simple options in the client.

[seanp2k2]

https://m.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2fkylx/hidden_netfli...

Works on many devices. Try also: the konami code.

[_ea1k]

How do I do that on an Android or iOS device?

[seanp2k2]

Try this: https://m.reddit.com/r/netflix/comments/2lh2xu/how_to_change...

[iaw]

Quick aside, I use this snippet as a bookmark in my taskbar to bypass paywalls:

javascript:location.href='https://www.google.com/webhp? %23q='%20+%20encodeURIComponent (location.href)%20+%20'&btnI=I'

(remove the space after the '?' and after after 'Component')