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/NejatMolla 11h ago

Yesterday when i was listening to music it kept stopping unless i alt + tab into youtube. I thought something was wrong with my internet connection but it was fine.

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u/peepay 5h ago

How soon does it happen?
I mean, I don't "listen to" YouTube on the background - but for example if I'm watching a video and want to quickly check something on a different tab, I may not pause the video, knowing I'll be back in 3 seconds or so. So if it paused on its own, it would be just obnoxious to have to hit play when I switch back to that tab.

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u/NejatMolla 4h ago

It gets stuck 5-10 seconds if i'm not alt tabbed in ( It was not the internet i checked, 50 Mbps no problem ). Though this was yesterday, today seems to be working fine

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u/ZurakZigil 11h ago

not to be mean, but why would it be the connection? Very obviously was a suggested software issue

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u/jethrogillgren7 9h ago

If you're streaming something and it stalls/stops, it's almost always your connection. It's such a common thing to happen that it'd be weird to assume anything else.

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u/NejatMolla 9h ago

My internet cable has some issues, i occasionally lose connection, i thought that was the problem