Mar
16
2009
Two Settings that should ALWAYS be defaulted
I finally went through my YouTube account settings and found two little gems. Under Playback Setup, you can choose to have YouTube play higher-quality video by default. Also under playback setup, you can turn off annotations by default. At last, I don’t have to keep adding “&fmt=18″ to the ends of all my YouTube URLs.
What I don’t understand is why they don’t turn annotations off by default. There might be some cases where annotations help (I have yet to see one), but for the most part they simply detract from whatever video is being played.
On the other hand, I don’t REALLY need the high quality to be defaulted. But when I click HQ, I expect it to work. And when it doesn’t, it’s oh so irritating.