I don’t understand. I play videos in the background all the time.
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Play video in background
Was such a shamelessly sleazy was to try and twist arms into using their service. Nevermind that it just spawned a thousand different 3rd party tools for getting around this annoying limiter. It just felt like a huge red flag, indicating they were going to use their native app to be fucking annoying to their clients going forward.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 days ago
bstix@feddit.dk 5 days ago
Not on free YouTube you don’t.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Maybe an issue with your browser then? Which one do you use?
bstix@feddit.dk 5 days ago
The background play is removed on cell phones. It used to be possible, but they removed it, only so they could charge money for enabling it again. I doubt they removed it from desktop.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
The lite version does not include this. It also still shows ads on music and shorts.