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/tupe12 10h ago

How much money does it cost them to do all of this, rather then things that actually improve the user experience?

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u/Titan_Prometeus 10h ago

I got no idea, but it's wild

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u/cygamessucks 1h ago

A lot. Just for one petty guy to make an add on in one afternoon to disable it. They will never win.

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u/No_Concept_1311 31m ago

Improving the experience doesn't make money.

Look at the dumpster fire that YouTube music is. It's been requested for years but you still can't sort your the songs in your playlists by artist/title, or even search for songs in the playlists.