YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
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Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#2still works for me
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#3still works for me
Not for long, probably.
I've noticed YouTube likes to A/B test a lot. If you use it signed out you pretty much get a new set of minor changes each time.
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#4I've noticed yesterday before and after update. So annoying. I so fucking hate Google and what they've become.
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#5Fuck google
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#6This is so annoying.
Along the same line is that you can watch any hour long video without interruptions unless it is music where you will get interrupted every couple of minutes with "are you there?" dialogues.
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#7If this may help you, some browser allow youtube videos in PIP (e.g. Orion). That keeps the video going, you can scale it down in a corner.
Otherwise the other option is to drag the tab out to a window of its own, they can't know it's not visible, at least that works for Twitch ads.
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#8Newpipe remains one of the best solutions for background playback. They do tend to move pretty quickly to patch "fixes" that YouTube throw in now and again. It's also useful for video backups if you need to preserve them for any reason.
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#9Imagine trying to take a basic browser function we’ve all taken for granted for decades and attempt to paywall it as ‘Background playback is a feature intended to be exclusive for YouTube Premium members.’
Get fucked. I vote we remove API access to any focus state information.
Fuck you google.
Re: YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
#10This will be a positive if browsers (extensions?) allow the ability to spoof visibility by site. Most websites have no business knowing if they're in the foreground or background.