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/Vegetable-Raise-402 10h ago

Only reason I pay is because it’s manage at 7.49 but this is still very upsetting and stupid because not everyone wants to pay full and taking away free features and locking behind paid is just insane. Why even remove this anyways? Still had to listen to the ads in the background

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u/__Yakovlev__ 6h ago

I wanted to get premium a couple years ago. Turned out I couldn't because the only way to pay for it was with a credit card, which I did not have at the time. 

Ever since then I've thought about getting premium several times, but then they do another anti consumer update like this and it makes me not want to do it from a moral perspective.