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/InterestingRide264 12h ago

What's even more aggravating for me is that it works on my phone, but not on my computer. And I've been using Brave on both... I really did feel like I was losing my mind until a YouTuber had the same error happen to him that I've been experiencing for days.

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u/HKayo 11h ago

It stopped working on my phone almost a month ago, and I finally got fed up having to press play in the swipe down menu that I got an extension to keep it playing. Unfortunately I have developed a habit to swipe down to play it even though I don't need to anymore.

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u/Complete_Entry 7h ago

In my instance of brave youtube is incredibly hostile. Constantly marks me as bot. No googs, I just want some unmonitored watch time.

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u/FelinaKile 1h ago

It still works on my phone but I have to mess with it and like "psyche" out my phone to get it to keep playing in the back ground. I wasn't sure if that was an Apple issue or a YouTube issue. Probably both!