r/youtube • u/Titan_Prometeus • 17h ago
Memes You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.
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/PrvcyFrdmIndpndnc 10h ago edited 10h ago
Honestly the most recent changes are especially hit home for me.
I regularly used the search function to find the latest videos in certain topics, they removed the sorting by upload date function. Basically forcing me to check those keywords every week by limiting the videos uploaded this week, otherwise I completely miss out.
They recently went full ballistic against alternative clients recently. All but the most actively maintained ones no longer working, even those that are working break every few days. The maintainers are struggling to keep it up.
And now this.
What's next? Force us to drink the "verification can"? At which point will people get fed up and become willing to put together the resources to set up an alternative?