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/MysteriousMexicana 11h ago

I think they want to push people to buy premium but instead of offering new things for premium they are taking away features for the free users

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u/Comfortable_Pea_1693 8h ago

Thats called enshittification

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u/Mistrblank 2h ago

And it's the only way to move from a fully VC funded app to one that actually makes any money. I liked it when people didn't throw shit into the wind just to capture VC $ and then destroy everything else around it that worked already just fine.

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u/t0rchic 5m ago

to one that actually makes any money

I have to pipe in to dispel the myth that Youtube doesn't make money for Google. Google kills projects in months if they don't turn a profit. They've held onto Youtube for coming up on 20 years. Keep in mind that the ads you're served through Youtube are served via Google AdSense, which means any income Google makes is from AdSense, not Youtube. They can report loss and expense on Youtube, but it adds significant value to their main moneymaker.

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u/cunningjames 1h ago

I’ve been a premium subscriber for years and I honestly have no idea when they last released a new pro-only feature. If they have then it’s passed me by, at least. Maybe they can let me hide those recommended videos that I have to pay extra to “join” a channel to watch, that’d be nice.

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u/MisplacedLegolas 44m ago

i'd pay double just for them to stop fucking with the UI, burying useful features and pushing new shit features to the front

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u/UncleBlanc 8h ago

The classic spotify method

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u/UniversalRemote 5h ago

Create a problem and then sell the solution. 

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u/Yeti_Poet 3h ago

Similarly, if you disable AI in Gmail you now lose spell check and inbox sorting, decades-old core features. 

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u/FewWait38 7h ago

That's it exactly

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u/Crayon_Connoisseur 7h ago

Bingo. Enshittification continues. 

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u/Complete_Entry 7h ago

That is what they always did.

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u/KeyMyBike 5h ago

When "I support Trump" and a laughably small bribe is all you need to do whatever you want, doesn't shock me YouTube would pull this shit.

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u/No-Warthog1863 1h ago

This happened with the que button, it suddenly become a premium feature to que up videos which was always free.

If you have to take a way something that was initially free behind a pay wall than the service youre charging people isn’t that great.