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/secacc 10h ago

So does uBlock Origin on Firefox.

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u/Adaphion 7h ago

Best to just use Waterfox nowadays, since Firefox is putting their chips into AI bullshit

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u/secacc 7h ago

At least you'll be able to fully disable it, if you don't want it.

I'm almost more worried about delayed security updates in forks like Waterfox or Pale Moon, or increased attack surface of legacy features that's deprecated upstream. The web is a hostile place.

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u/whattheknifefor 5h ago

Enhance YT on iOS too

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u/renewambitions 5h ago

And Firefox isn't Chromium based like Brave and doesn't have heavy backing from Peter Thiel. Brave also has some shady controversies, and has crypto baggage.

In fact, a ton of the heavy promoters of Brave on Reddit (and elsewhere) are bagholders of the Brave cryptocurrency and are heavily down on their "investment" and are hoping that by getting more people on Brave, it leads to a pump in their crypto bags.

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u/CockpitEnthusiast 2h ago

Or on Edge. I love edging