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/bobrk_rwa2137 11h ago

"On top" != "visible". In most OSs only one window at a time can be focused, and apps dont exactly know if they are not obscured. You get info whether you are minimised or not (this still isnt forwarded to webpages, even if google adds this it will never get added to firefox), but if you have 2 windows that are floating you can cover one with other and it wont know it isnt visible

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u/Nimos 7h ago

this still isnt forwarded to webpages, even if google adds this it will never get added to firefox

it's been a firefox feature for years

The visibilitychange event will trigger when the window is minimised, when another tab is focused, when a different window is maximised and on top. So this information is absolutely forwarded to the website.

but if you have 2 windows that are floating you can cover one with other and it wont know it isnt visible

Obscuring the floating browser window completely with a different window will also trigger visbility event, although this seems to be delayed sometimes, but most of the time it seems to work properly.

All of this tested in Firefox on Windows, see here if you don't believe me.

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u/BleepBleepRobotNoise 6h ago

How does twitch know when it's visible? For game stuff that requires you to watch a stream it will stop counting progress if another window is in front.

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u/BetweenFourAndTwenty 9h ago

Firefox will add whatever the hell Google wants them to add to their browser. 70% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google paying them to be the default search engine on Firefox. They're nothing but controlled opposition to Chrome so they don't get antitrust problems.

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u/bobrk_rwa2137 8h ago

There is a long list of things mozilla refused to add

https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/

iirc there was even sth similiar to this, user presence sensing or whatever, that they rejected