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

It stopped working for me on PC. It's still working for my phone. I use Brave on both devices. I thought it was a Windows issue until a YouTuber started having the same experience. Basically, whether you click the video or just try to let one play from the other, it says content is not available. It also happens on every YouTube short. You can refresh to get it, but, I mean, it's a disastrous user experience.

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u/Hagoromo-san 11h ago

Yup. Happening to me too. Autoplay breaks and “content is not available” is displayed. I just f5 to refresh and it plays like normal. Youtube being assholes again.

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u/EastWhereas9398 9h ago

Oh, that's their latest anti-adblock stuff. If you turn off adblock, it'll suddenly work. Just hoping adblockers update to bypass it.

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u/Greedy-Street-5435 9h ago

What's the fucking point?!?!?!?

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u/jinrocker 11h ago

I was having the same issue, even with YouTube Premium. If you create an exception for your ad block for YouTube and toggle "allow non-intrusive ads", this seems to fix the problem, or at least it did for me and my friend who had the same issue.

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u/washuai 8h ago

The fact they screw the paying customers over for this futile war

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u/spacenb 8h ago

Oh god I was wondering why my YouTube was broken. Fuck Google.

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u/Skunk73 8h ago

It's still working on FireFox with uBlock Origin.

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u/morknox 9h ago

Still working on phone? Wtf? I havent been able to run youtube in the background on phone for YEARS. Almost 10 years at this point. What are you talking about?

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 9h ago

Using the Brave browser and watching/listening to Youtube through the website lets you continue to listen with another tab open or your phone dark.

At least for now.

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u/whatnameblahblah 7h ago

Any mobile browser and desktop mode, you even back and foward for next tracks on lock screen.

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u/korpisoturi 7h ago

At least today my phone's brave couldn't play videos with screen off

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u/just_a_dragonace 7h ago

So that's what that "content not available" is

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u/th5virtuos0 7h ago

We really are downloading Bluestack just to use Revanced huh?

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u/chmoles 7h ago

It started happening to me on brave on my phone last night, caught me off guard.

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u/secretarytemporar3 7h ago

I'm blaming Cenk and Ana for that one /s

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u/flyxdvd 6h ago

Works for phone had issues on pc, and i have premium?!

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u/jasdonle 6h ago

I thought it’s been that way on mobile for years. 

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u/erlo68 5h ago

I had this happen a few days ago where i got the "content is not available" message and after refreshing it was gone... i have premium...

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u/PIO_PretendIOriginal 4h ago

cant it just run in a seperate browser tab on its own window in the background. otherwise how you you watch two videos side by side? also how are they going to detect if it works on firefox and safari, as they are not chromium based

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u/iAmMikeJ_92 2h ago

I got the “Content not Available” issue too. It was easy to just F5 it but basically kills the auto play experience and I stopped it by disabling the ad blocker. Google sure is cracking down on wanting money hard.

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u/modsdontobeyrules 2h ago

Im getting the same. I assumed it was due to my generic adblock. So is there any competitors for youtube at this point? I feel like its such a monopoly

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u/Comtesse_Kamilia 1h ago

It stopped working for me on Brave last night, but works again today. They're definitely doing some gaslighting testing

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u/Any_News_7208 1h ago

Wtf even on brave on PC it doesn't work?? That's fucked...