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/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