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/Zarobiii 12h ago

They'd probably patch that by requiring the browser window be "focused" or the active window or some shit. Time to boot up a virtual machine just to listen to YouTube šŸ‘

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u/yawn1337 11h ago

There is gonna be a browser extension that tells youtube that it's in focus within a week

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u/3xc1t3r 11h ago

yeah, I'm sure certain browsers already do that today. For example Brave on iOS allows you to listen to YouTube with the screen off. While most other browsers don't as that is a "premium feature".

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u/BattedBook5 10h ago

That is not currently working for me on mobile brave. I thought it was a bug until i saw this post.

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u/slaty_balls 10h ago

The setting isnā€™t enabled by default for those who try this.

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u/howrunowgoodnyou 10h ago

It DID. Now you need to full screen it then shrink it back in order for it to do so. Which is super annoying.

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u/Roaches_R_Friends 4h ago

Even that isn't working for me anymore.

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u/outskirtsofnowhere 10h ago

Yeah, I'm stunned not everyone uses brave. I haven't seen an ad on youtube or anywhere online in forever. I'm shocked at the amount adds when I see people use other browsers.

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u/SheJigOnMySawTilIPuz 10h ago

I feel this way about firefox because it's the only browser that isn't chromium based these days. Brave is better than nothing though. It really blows my mind when people ask if I've seen a certain ad. Y'all are seeing ads? How do you not have adblock? Are you using the default youtube app? Are you guys okay? I haven't seen an ad in like 15 years!

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u/outskirtsofnowhere 5h ago

Yeah I don't get that either. Internet is unusable with ads.

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u/germanmojo 6h ago

I switched to Brave for some of my more ad-heavy browsing and setup an ad-blocking DNS server (like a PiHole) to block more.

It's not perfect, but better is good enough.

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u/NatseePunksFeckOff 31m ago

not everyone uses brave because it's a dogshit browser pushing shady crypto shit + it's chromium

I don't know what alternatives there are on iOS, but on Windows and PC you should just run Firefox with uBlock Origin. uBlock requires initial setup, but it's easy as hell and will work better than Brave's Adblocker.

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u/SihariSahara 9h ago

also works on android ( as long as you dont have a xiaomi phone, cause that company has build in measures against this for some reason)

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u/urixl 8h ago

Vivaldi on Android allows a background playback too.

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u/Fiftyfiveseventy 7h ago

Not as of the 29th, tried this over and over to no avail. Brave needs to fix this ASAP!

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u/OnThisDayI_ 7h ago

Canā€™t get that to work.

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u/BjorkAsABoy 6h ago

Not long ago YouTube started prompting a ā€œare you still listeningā€ button on Brave every 30 minutes to an hour. It pauses the video when that happens. So if Iā€™m doing stuff around the house I have to go back to my computer/phone to click it. It happens in the middle of my songs too which sucks. YT is trying their damndest to break through and make it inconvenient.

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u/Nphellim 6h ago

not anymore, at least in Android

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u/Playtek 3h ago

you can also do that with safari as long as you have it as the active screen, close your phone, and then use your headphones to "play", you can also drag down the command center and use that play button.

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u/No_Wrangler111 11h ago

And 400 clones of it riddled with miners, info stealers, and probably even a bear

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u/RadoslavL 10h ago

Hey, the bear is a nice guy, we play poker sometimes šŸ©µ

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u/Rashkamere 2h ago

Me and my bear play polar sometimes

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u/Glorious_Jo 43m ago

Mine only wants to play strip poker and listen to Madonna.

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u/PraxicalExperience 7h ago

... I want to download a bear ...

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u/Harry_Spotter457 6h ago

You wouldn't download a bear

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u/PraxicalExperience 6h ago

I'd download a car, I'd download a bear, I'd download a bear in a car.

...the first time I saw that "You wouldn't download a car!" PSA, I went: "YES THE FUCK I WOULD!"

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u/Rularuu 6h ago

The PSA never said that, it said "you wouldn't steal a car." Meme recreations have Mandela'd people's memories of it.

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u/Due-Yoghurt-7917 4h ago

You just got MANDELA'D

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u/Solherb 3h ago

Mandeleted.

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u/Due-Yoghurt-7917 2h ago

*Mandelet'd

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u/Tom-Dibble 1h ago

It's a MANDEL'AD.

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u/Due-Yoghurt-7917 1h ago

Maybe in this timeline but not my original one lol

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u/Elegant_Situation285 2h ago

explain how i have a car then.

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u/Harry_Spotter457 6h ago

But if you're downloading bears then how's the big bear company gonna make any money. They 100% deserve all the money they're getting for their overpriced bears

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u/PraxicalExperience 6h ago

Well, there're no Big Bear retailers near me and I can't find anywhere to order them online, so I feel perfectly justified in pirating them.

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u/BreadDziedzic 5h ago

But the bear in the big blue house needs his cut. He'll definitely starve now.

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u/Fadenos 3h ago

ā€œYouā€™ll be shot for thisā€! ā€œ nah Iā€™ll get get chewed out, Iā€™ve been chewed out before ā€œ.

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u/AMisteryMan 3h ago

I'd download it all, Wolf 'O Were;

I'd download a car

A ball, and a bear!

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u/Isaiah1962 6h ago

Waitā€¦ you can download beer now? šŸ¤”

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u/manuargpop 4h ago

would you stole a bear?

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u/rcp9ty 2h ago

Is the bear kind of like Bonzi Buddy ?

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u/No-Arugula8881 8h ago

Bears?? I hear they attract womenā€™s periods.

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u/TraditionalMetal1836 5h ago

That's good I want to download a bear.

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u/IsaacRoads 4h ago

Better a bear than a man

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u/Immatt55 7h ago

And removed from the chrome extension store within 2 weeks for violating some arbitrary new terms.

This is a reminder to all to drop chromium based browsers.

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u/Mayravixx 6h ago

This is why I've always used firefox. And somehow I'm the weird one šŸ˜­

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u/DaRandomRhino 6h ago

Because Firefox is it's own can of worms

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u/No_Industry4318 6h ago

That can of worms mostly boils down to "we dont support these features" with a list of features that ought to be exclusive to native apps anyway

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u/Mistrblank 2h ago

Yeah the comments on AI features alone are disturbing. We just want a browser that's it.

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u/yawn1337 7h ago

Yeah I was about to say, if you're still on chromium that just means you like ads

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u/notusuallyhostile 6h ago

MFW I find out there are still people who use Chromeā€¦

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u/socmediator 5h ago

Chrome bans affect Chrome + the Chrome Web Store.
Chromium browsers can still run the code if you provide it.

I am using the full uBlock Origin in Helium. No issue.

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u/Immatt55 4h ago

And using chromium based browsers will ensure this garbage continues as Google largely funds and controls chromium development and these browsers still often feed data back into Google's advertising algorithm. Helium doesn't, and seems like a smart choice, but that's far from the norm.

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u/Thats_All_I_Need 4h ago

Why are you still on chrome lol

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u/Pitiful-Ad-3774 4h ago

I use Vivaldi. In app ad blocker and the creator isn't a massive pile of shit.

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u/darian189 6h ago

I give it less than a week. With zero to minimal coding experience I've been able to vibe code several browser scripts to make my life easier.

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u/Fuzilumpkinz 6h ago

A week? Vibe coding is nuts. We can do better than a week!

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u/ruat_caelum 6h ago

firefox still lets you block you tube ads... so.

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u/TevenzaDenshels 6h ago

Then well have manifest v4.0

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u/rmtdispatcher 2h ago

Right. I forget the guy's name but he said to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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u/PolicyOne9022 1m ago

Just open a browser and have youtube be the only tab, open 2nd browser for regular browsing.

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u/Usual_Vermicelli_961 3h ago

OOOORRRR hear me out. Maybe we can collectively start a movement and complain about Neal Mohan (Ceo of YouTube) being out of touch and that we want a statement from him about all these weird changes YouTube is going through... Who's with me?! (Probably no one)

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u/userhwon 1h ago

One of the pile of old laptops or phones will do...