YouTube, Amazon Prime forgo streaming quality to relieve European networks

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YouTube, Amazon Prime forgo streaming quality to relieve European networks

To help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans work from home.

YouTube and Amazon Prime will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans, confined by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to working from home. Alphabet Inc's YouTube and Amazon joined Netflix in responding to a call by European Union ...

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