Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
Companion1666@lemmy.world 7 months agoyou 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 7 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 7 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 7 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.
kWazt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Valid question. If I leave LW on optimized, Android will kill it about a minute after I turn my screen off, which ruins my podcast experience (I like to sometimes watch my podcasts as well as some of them are enhanced by visuals)