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They don't care about performance, they care about cost.
There are two different customers here. The site wants to serve the absolute minimum required resolution they can get away with before the user goes somewhere else. This saves money on bandwidth and storage. The ad networks customers are the advertisers and they want their ad to be high quality and presented quickly so it's harder for the network to trim the fat.
There’s only one customer (and you’re not it).
Eh you can pay for YouTube or Netflix. They'll still try to serve you shit quality and ads If they can get away it. It might be 4k but it's probably at the lowest bit rate they can get away with while your device which is " powered by AI" makes up some shit to fill in the blanks.
Everyone wins!