

If you have a Mac with a 4K display, you can watch YouTube videos in 4K.

YouTube now uses a Dynamic Active Streaming over HTTP (DASH) that adapts the stream depending on the user’s bandwidth. So caching would require much more space for much less benefit. However, technology has improved, most videos are now HD, and internet connections are much faster. It didn’t require a lot of space to store the data, and there was a real benefit to not having to re-stream the video if you went back to an earlier section or wanted to watch the video again. In the early days of YouTube, when video streaming over the web was in its infancy, bandwidth was restricted, and most videos were, at most, standard resolution, caching made sense.
#HOW TO CLEAR COOKIES AND CACHE MAC INSTALL#
YouTube doesn't store any more data on your Mac than most other websites, but together all the websites you visit and apps you install store quite a bit of cache files, and it's worth having a clear-out now and again. If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may think that it stores lots of data on your Mac and that you need to clear it out from time to time. The point is that YouTube is so huge that there are videos for almost everyone.

Most of us have spent many hours watching videos on YouTube. But to help you do it all by yourself, we’ve gathered our best ideas and solutions below. So here's a tip for you: Download CleanMyMac to quickly solve some of the issues mentioned in this article.
