YouTube drops 'experiment' reserving 4K for paying viewers - AppleInsider

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Following aggregate reports that YouTube was readying to complaint viewers to ticker 4K videos, the institution has called it an experimentation that has present been "turned off."

As previously reported, a fig of YouTube users were being blocked from watching videos successful 4K quality. While it did not impact each users, those who were blocked besides saw a connection saying 4K was a Premium diagnostic that needed them to upgrade.

YouTube past confirmed that determination were a fig of users being shown an experimentation "to cognize amended the diagnostic preferences [of] Premium and non-Premium viewers." Now, however, it has responded to users connected Twitter, saying that the experimentation is over.

YouTube has not commented further, however. So it is not wide yet whether the institution has abandoned the program oregon is inactive evaluating the results and, presumably, the online backlash it received.