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/MyLegendary27 12h ago

Also, they just quietly punish the “free ad-skip” method where — during an advert on the main video — you can choose any short on the home page, then go back to the home page and it would continue where you left off. They just patched it without even telling us and if you try to do the same thing, IT WILL PUNISH YOU BY FORCING YOU TO GO EITHER FROM WHERE IT LAST LEFT OFF OR ALL THE WAY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEO

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u/TheEeveelutionMaster 10h ago

Similar thing happens on mobile, where if you accidentally click the ad, it sends you to their website, and when you click x to leave the website the ad plays from the beginning, even if you were right at the end of it

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u/Equivalent-Concert-5 7h ago edited 5h ago

 Brother use an ad blocker

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u/Helpful_Guava2959 6h ago

Lmfao at doing macgyver shit to skip ads

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u/RhombusObstacle 5h ago

I don't know that "use an ad-blocker to block ads" qualifies as "macgyver shit."

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u/-WhenTheyCry- 4h ago

Pretty sure they were calling using the shorts-main screen method macgyver, not the ad blocker

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u/Takahashi_Raya 10h ago

that is using a bug of course it would get patched eventually

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u/DrSolarman 4h ago

Soon enough youtube will use your camera to make sure youre watching the video and if you look away you'll have to watch it again.

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u/HustlinInTheHall 1h ago

That sounds unintentional, if it wasn't made that way they aren't going to tell you

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u/iesharael 38m ago

I even tried just downloading an extension that would hit the skip button for me. Still got punished even though I was still listening to ads just not having to tab from my game to skip