Google confirmed it is closing free YouTube background playback loopholes | Infinium-tech
Most users join and purchase YouTube Premium to remove ads on the popular platform. However, Google also locks some other features behind that paywall. Most notably – background playback.
That said, for quite some time now, clever developers and their respective users have been finding ways to get the feature for free. The simplest way to play content in the background was to use a third-party browser like Samsung Internet, Brave or Vivaldi (to name a few). After a huge number of reports from users over the past few days, Google has finally confirmed that it is fixing such flaws for background playback.
Background playback is a feature that is exclusive to YouTube Premium members. While some non-Premium users may have previously been able to access it via a mobile web browser in some scenarios, we’ve updated the experience to ensure consistency across all our platforms.
We are not sure how many users this change will affect, but it is Google’s prerogative to take such action. Before you start spreading comments, we know there are other existing solutions to get background playback. We won’t discuss any of them for obvious reasons, but most, if not all, require a lot more effort than simply opening the browser, so Google has likely achieved its goals with this move.
Leave a Reply