Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
of course that’s infuriating, but you want to know something else is infuriating? I’ve been paying for YouTube premium all these years, and one of the perks of that supposedly was that we could hear the audio from videos even when our screen is off. within the last few months, that is no longer true for me. The video stops playing after exactly 120 seconds if I turn the screen off. I’m paying for YouTube premium! I should be able to hear the audio from the videos when my screen is off. As far as I know I’m the only one experiencing this because other people on let me have told me they can still hear the audio when their screen is off. someone please help me. You know how there is no YouTube customer service.
Companion1666@lemmy.world 10 months ago
you might turn off youtube app’s battery optimization setting. this happened to me before, until i turned off my phone’s battery saver settings.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hey, thanks, you may be right. I just checked my settings and it was originally clicked on the last one, restricted. So I switched it to the top one. unrestricted. And I vague the recall getting a notification sometime ago that YouTube was taking up too much battery and they asked me if I wanted to optimize the settings? I’m like sure yeah whatever. But yeah since then I think that’s when I haven’t been able to play the video while phone is hibernating or while I multitasking on different apps. Thank you. hopefully now that I switch the setting I can go back to my full premium perks.
kWazt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Or, you know, try LibreTube. Does the job for free, and it includes SponsorBlock. Just don’t forget to change the battery setting to unrestricted.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
+1 for LibreWolf, I love it. Would you mind explaining why it’s important to set the battery to unrestricted? I’ve been running it on optimized for a long time and never had any issues.