[macspoofing]

>But even as they discover the joys of YouTube, their experience is not great on slower connections and less powerful mobile phone ..

Or on fast connections but with data caps. So outside of wifi, Youtube is unusable. I'll watch two-three videos and I'll hit my monthly cap.

Almost every single issue India users experience is a problem everywhere else. Every solution they came up with would be useful for users everywhere else. It feels like Google engineers live in the SV bubble where unlimited always-on connectivity is a fact of life. So thanks Google.

[qwertyuiop924]

If you're careful, you can get a good number of videos on a data plan, depending on what your cap is. At least, I can, but my cap is pretty big.

[movedx]

Can you expand more on what it is to be "careful"? What can I do to reduce the data usage when attempting to view a long video?

[grapeshot]

There is a setting in the YouTube app to only play in SD when not on WiFi but that may only be on Android. It's still not nearly as fine grained as it should be.

[qwertyuiop924]

On iPhone, YouTube will only play on lowest possible quality on cellular.