YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users

Google's AOM conflicts of interest aside, the switch makes sense to me. File sizes are still king, for both storage and for Web Vitals -- the latter especially matters on slower cell connections.

Though it does cheer me up how the "art software" and photography big-wigs (e.g. Adobe) recently threw weight behind JPEG-XL <3

Now I just wonder if there's any easy way to have AV1 thumbnails show up easily by default in Windows 11