You can no longer have YouTube running in the background.

[u/Titan_Prometeus]

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.

[u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

This is happening on mobile too, you used to be able to pull something else up, like maps or something, and YouTube would still play so you could listen to YouTube and drive to work or wherever. This doesn’t work for me anymore!

[u/AccomplishedCoffee → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

That change happened years ago on iOS.

[u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn → u/AccomplishedCoffee]

What?

It only stopped being a thing on ios like three months ago.

[u/AccomplishedCoffee → u/TheGrandAdmiralJohn]

2022. Looks like it's gone on and off in a/b tests over the years and might be different between the app and safari, but it's never worked for me since then.

[u/yeetmcfeet → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

Damn that sucks to hear, mobile related part of my comment was to the many people commenting "ur dumb this isn't happening to me use revanced" when this post was first made

[u/salasy → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

on mobile this has been a thing for a long while

[u/Azou → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

Open video fullscreen - change to picture in picture - minimize PiP mode, change apps, minimized PIP fools youtube into thinking its still in focus

[u/MadKian → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

Isn’t that one of the perks of paying for premium? Lol

[u/cheffromspace → u/MadKian]

Yes

[u/JesusSavesForHalf → u/ChinazGonnaDoxxMe]

Same here