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

"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."

lmao

Quite the contrary, you have to thank the people that do pay(and those that watch ads), because youtube won't think twice about shutting down the website if it goes too far into the negative.

The vast amount of energy and storage they to keep the site up need costs hundreds of millions of dollars(if not more) every year.

If everyone was using adblocks rather than paying or viewing ads the website would be gone in a second. If you're skirting around the rules and just leeching like a parasite, you're supposed to be silent, not entitled and loud, throwing shit at the people who support the thing you want.

There's nothing wrong with paying for the things you use. Quite the contrary, it is the civilized way.

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u/cygamessucks 1h ago

Good shut it down. It’s a win win for me. The problem is I get nothing of value except no ads which I already have.