> You can tell Youtube to prefer AV1 only for low-quality videos (https://www.youtube.com/account_playback)

What option are you referring to here? I don’t see anything that seems related to that.

zamadatix a day ago | parent | next [-]

What it looks like if it's available (AV1 settings section): https://i.imgur.com/rp6Cvkd.png

"auto"

"prefer AV1"

"always prefer AV1"

so... which one turns av1 off?

	▲	zamadatix 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		None, but "prefer AV1 for SD" will prevent the stuttering due to the changes mentioned above. If you don't ever want AV1 then it probably makes more sense to not have the browser advertise it as an option to sites. One can configure Firefox as such, I'm not sure about Chrome.

bombela 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The wording is gold dark pattern.

squigz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

There is an "AV1 settings" below "Subtitles and Closed Captions" for me. If you don't see it perhaps it's not available for you yet.