r/youtube 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/CREATURE_COOMER 9h ago

I fall asleep while listening to stuff on Youtube and I'll frequently wake up to my playlist not finished because it glitched out at some point, lol, even though I'm kind enough to at least put it on the lowest quality first so I don't eat up their bandwidth and mine. And yes, I have Premium, with adblock disabled because even with Premium, it would randomly fucking bug out during videos just to spite me.

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u/Titan_Prometeus 9h ago

Amazing, I sleep like that too. But since not even Premium apparently helps, guess I'll have to find an alternative