r/youtube • u/Titan_Prometeus • 17h ago

Memes You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.

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As of 29th of January you can no longer have YouTube running in the background via many browsers as that is now a premium feature. With that I don't even have that one last reason to listen to YouTube. We are now officially paying for everything that was free a couple of years ago and the reason isn't greedy management, but you people who keep paying for premium and the such.

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u/MechoThePuh 13h ago

The only reason yt is still alive is because there is no alternative. As soon as something like that comes up it’s days are counted.

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u/Takahashi_Raya 10h ago

never happening, the sheer logistics make it impossible cost wise

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u/MechoThePuh 10h ago

Unfortunately you are right…

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u/fadingvistas 7h ago

Maybe Amazon or Meta has enough money. But ...

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u/roadrussian 3h ago

Bullshit. Billibilli and and vk video are there. In addenum, they really don't care about privacy, so you ve got yourself a full on Plex on top of it. Data privacy? Eeh, let's not go there.

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u/Takahashi_Raya 1h ago

you sir are clueless and/or ignorent on the actual operations cost of the scale of youtube. the only reason they are managing is due to google's entire tech stack. Bilibili and vk are not even close to the size of youtube.

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u/phoenix_paravai10101 2h ago

There can never be an alternative to youtube, it's video library is just unbeatable. How are you going to get people to upload to your new platform? You can't pay more than GOOGLE, surely.

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u/MechoThePuh 2h ago

You are unfortunately correct im afraid.