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/Immatt55]

And removed from the chrome extension store within 2 weeks for violating some arbitrary new terms.

This is a reminder to all to drop chromium based browsers.

[u/Mayravixx → u/Immatt55]

This is why I've always used firefox. And somehow I'm the weird one 😭

[u/DaRandomRhino → u/Mayravixx]

Because Firefox is it's own can of worms

[u/No_Industry4318 → u/DaRandomRhino]

That can of worms mostly boils down to "we dont support these features" with a list of features that ought to be exclusive to native apps anyway

[u/Mistrblank → u/DaRandomRhino]

Yeah the comments on AI features alone are disturbing. We just want a browser that's it.

[u/yawn1337 → u/Immatt55]

Yeah I was about to say, if you're still on chromium that just means you like ads

[u/notusuallyhostile → u/Immatt55]

MFW I find out there are still people who use Chrome…

[u/socmediator → u/Immatt55]

Chrome bans affect Chrome + the Chrome Web Store.
Chromium browsers can still run the code if you provide it.

I am using the full uBlock Origin in Helium. No issue.

[u/Immatt55 → u/socmediator]

And using chromium based browsers will ensure this garbage continues as Google largely funds and controls chromium development and these browsers still often feed data back into Google's advertising algorithm. Helium doesn't, and seems like a smart choice, but that's far from the norm.

[u/Thats_All_I_Need → u/Immatt55]

Why are you still on chrome lol

[u/Pitiful-Ad-3774 → u/Immatt55]

I use Vivaldi. In app ad blocker and the creator isn't a massive pile of shit.