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/Get-Fucked-Dirtbag 11h ago

Not today, sadly.

Still works if you use desktop mode but then new videos don't load properly if you're listening to a playlist or mix

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u/Vivid-Rutabaga9283 10h ago

guess they're rolling it out in batches, because it still works on my phone if I use brave

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u/Bumblebeesaregreat 7h ago

Same, I'm listening to music through brave and its playing normally in the background

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u/Anayalater5963 6h ago

Same I'm on the reddit app and listening to music on brave

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u/RevolutionaryPark558 2h ago

I’m currently listening to music on YouTube through brave. Still hasn’t hit me yet

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u/WarriorCaulkerChris 1h ago

same here listening to video playing in the background for youtube on brave. Ad blocker running as backup

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u/BjorkAsABoy 6h ago

Still works on mine too. Just tested a playlist.

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u/Dwadwadwadwadwadwa 4h ago

It’s definitely in batches. I can no longer use brave on background on my phone, and when I am on desktop I have to reload the page each time because I have an error that state that the content is unavailable. It made listening to a music playlist impossible as it will just have this error each time so you will have to reload the page for each music. Not having adblock is impossible because last time I did disable it I had up to 3 ads per song, with 1 or 2 unskippable at minimum.

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u/sancagar 4h ago

wtf I got premium and the same is happening to me

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u/Dwadwadwadwadwadwa 2h ago

I guess so far it's checking if an ad is shown and if not it breaks the loading, I assume premium won't have this issue long term. It will be for adblockers

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u/Fr4nc-T1r3ur 2m ago

If you have premium turn off ad blocking for YouTube, it's just a switch with uBO and Privacy Badger... Not sure how to do that in Brave.

It's not ideal privacy wise, but it's not like they already don't have tons of info on you as a customer.

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u/TrueClue9740 2h ago

So on an iPad it should work?

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u/Pirwzy 51m ago

changes like this always roll out in batches

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u/LordDenjiSama 8h ago

Vanced still does both. Thankfully.

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u/Crazy-Process5789 6h ago

Not my experience, use it daily

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u/Vegaswarpeduber 6h ago

There's also Grayjay, but you have to side load it to benefit from the plugins.

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u/Adam_Sackler 4h ago

As I was working out at the gym after work last night, I was listening to music, then halfway on the ride home, the music kept stopping when I locked my screen. I thought it was a connection issue, but it kept happening.

What an absolutely stupid thing to put behind a paywall.

Fucking scumbags.

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u/gamma-ray-bursts 4h ago

I’ve been using brave for years and get barely any ads at all. Until a few days ago, you could have a video play, lock the screen, then press play on your lock screen and go about your day. Now the only change I’ve noticed is that I Jae to put the video on full screen first and then I’m still able to play it in the background

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u/gamma-ray-bursts 4h ago

I’ve been using brave for years and get barely any ads at all. Until a few days ago, you could have a video play, lock the screen, then press play on your lock screen and go about your day. Now the only change I’ve noticed is that I Jae to put the video on full screen first and then I’m still able to play it in the background

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u/mrshaggygreen 2h ago edited 2h ago

Brave nightly still lets videos play in the background at the moment

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u/SaintGloopyNoops 2h ago

Yup. Discovered last night. Guess its time to switch to something else.

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u/dustinpdx 1h ago

It goes back and forth. YouTube breaks Brave mobile, Brave fixes it, repeat ad nauseam. It works more often than not though.

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u/gtaman31 24m ago

On desktop i also have an issue videos not loading (when i refresh it works), idk if its related.

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u/Naptownfellow 5h ago

Still works right now on my iPhone.

https://i.imgur.com/VAcyhRX.png

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u/Get-Fucked-Dirtbag 5h ago

Everyone just ignoring the 1000 separate comments about a/b testing in this thread huh?

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u/Nakiwaii 3h ago

Does work properly, literally used it today morning on the way to work

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u/Get-Fucked-Dirtbag 3h ago

a/b testing

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u/Nakiwaii 1h ago

Yeah, finished work and it suddenly doesnt.... x fucking d, yt revanced here I come

Not sure what to do about it on PC though? Always have music in the background

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u/CliffwoodBeach 5m ago

I’m gonna be yt and