diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b7432474..52f8bf799 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ Some of yt-dlp's default options are different from that of youtube-dl and youtu
 * yt-dlp's sanitization of invalid characters in filenames is different/smarter than in youtube-dl. You can use `--compat-options filename-sanitization` to revert to youtube-dl's behavior
 * yt-dlp tries to parse the external downloader outputs into the standard progress output if possible (Currently implemented: [~~aria2c~~](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/5931)). You can use `--compat-options no-external-downloader-progress` to get the downloader output as-is
 * yt-dlp versions between 2021.09.01 and 2023.01.02 applies `--match-filter` to nested playlists. This was an unintentional side-effect of [8f18ac](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/8f18aca8717bb0dd49054555af8d386e5eda3a88) and is fixed in [d7b460](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/d7b460d0e5fc710950582baed2e3fc616ed98a80). Use `--compat-options playlist-match-filter` to revert this
+* yt-dlp versions between 2021.11.10 and 2023.06.21 estimated `filesize_approx` values for fragmented/manifest formats. This was added for convenience in [f2fe69](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/f2fe69c7b0d208bdb1f6292b4ae92bc1e1a7444a), but was reverted in [0dff8e](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/commit/0dff8e4d1e6e9fb938f4256ea9af7d81f42fd54f) due to the potentially extreme inaccuracy of the estimated values. Use `--compat-options manifest-filesize-approx` to keep extracting the estimated values
 * yt-dlp uses modern http client backends such as `requests`. Use `--compat-options prefer-legacy-http-handler` to prefer the legacy http handler (`urllib`) to be used for standard http requests.
 
 For ease of use, a few more compat options are available:
diff --git a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
index d5c0a2422..fb8e89443 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -2764,7 +2764,8 @@ class YoutubeDL:
                 format['dynamic_range'] = 'SDR'
             if format.get('aspect_ratio') is None:
                 format['aspect_ratio'] = try_call(lambda: round(format['width'] / format['height'], 2))
-            if (not format.get('manifest_url')  # For fragmented formats, "tbr" is often max bitrate and not average
+            # For fragmented formats, "tbr" is often max bitrate and not average
+            if (('manifest-filesize-approx' in self.params['compat_opts'] or not format.get('manifest_url'))
                     and info_dict.get('duration') and format.get('tbr')
                     and not format.get('filesize') and not format.get('filesize_approx')):
                 format['filesize_approx'] = int(info_dict['duration'] * format['tbr'] * (1024 / 8))
diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py
index 4254974fc..e9d927717 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -471,12 +471,12 @@ def create_parser():
                 'no-attach-info-json', 'embed-thumbnail-atomicparsley', 'no-external-downloader-progress',
                 'embed-metadata', 'seperate-video-versions', 'no-clean-infojson', 'no-keep-subs', 'no-certifi',
                 'no-youtube-channel-redirect', 'no-youtube-unavailable-videos', 'no-youtube-prefer-utc-upload-date',
-                'prefer-legacy-http-handler'
+                'prefer-legacy-http-handler', 'manifest-filesize-approx'
             }, 'aliases': {
-                'youtube-dl': ['all', '-multistreams', '-playlist-match-filter'],
-                'youtube-dlc': ['all', '-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', '-playlist-match-filter'],
+                'youtube-dl': ['all', '-multistreams', '-playlist-match-filter', '-manifest-filesize-approx'],
+                'youtube-dlc': ['all', '-no-youtube-channel-redirect', '-no-live-chat', '-playlist-match-filter', '-manifest-filesize-approx'],
                 '2021': ['2022', 'no-certifi', 'filename-sanitization', 'no-youtube-prefer-utc-upload-date'],
-                '2022': ['no-external-downloader-progress', 'playlist-match-filter', 'prefer-legacy-http-handler'],
+                '2022': ['no-external-downloader-progress', 'playlist-match-filter', 'prefer-legacy-http-handler', 'manifest-filesize-approx'],
             }
         }, help=(
             'Options that can help keep compatibility with youtube-dl or youtube-dlc '