Imagine 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.

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laserlight 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It upsets me to see YouTube Premium apologists despite all the hostile moves by YouTube. YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme. When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them. They won't forget sugarcoating ads as being “unobtrusive” or “environment-supporting” or whatever. But guess what? If you don't want to see them, you can upgrade to YouTube Premium Plus and continue being an apologist.

	▲	slig 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>When there are enough paying customers, YouTube Premium will begin showing ads to them. We'll see. Until then, it's cheap and works fine.
	▲	wiseowise 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		But think how hard it is for them to earn money to make up for all the billions they’ve used to create de facto monopoly in video space? Won’t someone think of poor capitalists trying to squeeze the niche dry?
	▲	mschuster91 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> YouTube Premium is an extortion scheme. One might also say it was unsustainable from the start, video is incredibly expensive to host and especially moderate. All we're seeing right now is the beginning of the end of the ad-financed world. Someone has to pay the bills in the end and advertisement spending is on the way down, more and more of it is going to influencers/TTL instead of traditional ATL/BTL marketing.