alt Hacker NewsI still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.
Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done.
Thank goodness for ReVanced.
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charcircuit • today at 4:36 AM
It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.
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>I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off.
That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline
I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed.
At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8