YouTube now blocking background playback on mobile browsers

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• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It still works in Firefox if you switch to the desktop site. You can also use uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock with it to get rid of the ads.

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  • PointyFluff@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Video Background Play Fix for Firefox as well

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  • totesmygoat@piefed.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget shorts block. It’s like the YouTube of my youth. Lol

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      uBlock can already block shorts.

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• along_the_road@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  newpipe.net

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• IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We need a real YouTube alternative.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Won't happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it's free.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Given the number of porn video websites now, I don’t think the cost of video hosting is the major issue.

      The bigger issue is likely having to moderate the site. Twitch focused on live streaming as a way to reduce exposure to copyrighted content and TikTok kept videos short enough that it could skate around fair use by not being able to air longer form copyrighted content.

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  • theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’ll never happen, until they make YT premium so prohibitively expensive that a majority of users no longer want to pay. If they’re smart, they’ll keep it at the current price until it starts losing money, because their effective monopoly is YouTube’S most valuable asset. Once they get any kind of decent competition, the whole house of cards tumbles.

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• scintilla@crust.piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ReVanced is still working. Definitely going to get my account banned eventually but I’ve moved my important things off googles anyways.

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• Mesa@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t even use it with Premium.

  Yes, I have YouTube Premium. Family member has it, might as well take advantage of it.

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You will buy youtube premium, damn it!!!”

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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• nailingjello@piefed.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  NewPipe still seems to be working (thankfully)

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  • cv_octavio@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve had a week of “content unavailable” in newpipe. Does not seem to be working at all anymore.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you downloaded from f-droid you can add the new pipe as an additional repo and get updates sooner. I had to do this to get newpipe working again.

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    • ryujin470@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Update it. Version 0.28.2 fixes this

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I got sick of the cat and mouse with updates and youtube making changes.

      I tried Grayjay from f-droid and I’m never going back. Getting all my video platforms on one amazing app with excellent queueing, background play, pop-out player, etc. It even has ad-blocking and sponsorblock built in. I’ve happily paid for this app and set it up ok my PC too. Highly recommended.

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• unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  With PipePipe, I’ve had an amazing experience, in very very few ocasions I had videos failing on me, and when I went to F-Droid (with Izzy-On-Droid) there there was, the update that already fixed the issue.

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• ryujin470@fedia.io ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  See this article for an analysis.

  They tested that when logged in with an account without YouTube premium, locking the screen paused playback and caused the playback notification to disappear. The notification didn't disappear with an YouTube Premium subscription (althrough playback still paused).

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  • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then it seems like a strategic move alongside locking higher playback speeds behind premium as well.

    UI and player control on payed tiers when it makes no technical difference to them as a delivery platform.

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• Rhoeri@piefed.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But watch how this doesn’t put a dent in their viewership. I swear, YouTubers are a perfect example of cultural Stockholm syndrome.

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• N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Orion still does background playback and also blocks ads ! I only tested it on an iPhone though :/

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• EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep. I was using it on Vivaldi for Android until I couldn’t anymore. Now I’m switching to GreyJay.

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