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BLKNSLVR 4 days ago

I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.

Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done.

Thank goodness for ReVanced.

cons0le 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

>I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.

That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline

I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed.

At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8

charcircuit 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.

jayknight 3 days ago | parent [-]

Is this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off.

BLKNSLVR 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

No. What you describe is correct: No background play via the yt app unless you pay.

SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser).

cuu508 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

In a browser, it works even without Youtube Premium :-)

Firefox mobile, m.youtube.com, "Video Background Play Fix" browser extension.

fdgjgbdfhgb 3 days ago | parent [-]

Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone

tcfhgj 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

So does ReVanced YouTube

nsoqm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

On iOS I use Brave and it works fine.