Google is blocking the video playback feature in the background for YouTube users who use third-party browsers. This step is taken to stop the illegal habits of free users.
Playing videos in the background is a feature that only YouTube Premium users can enjoy. However, not everyone wants to spend a lot of money just to subscribe to the video streaming application.
Therefore, many people take advantage of third-party browser support that supports YouTube playback in the background. Reportedly, this ability has been removed from browsers such as Samsung Internet, Brave, Vivaldi, to Microsoft Edge on Android devices.
"Background playback is a feature intended to be exclusive to YouTube Premium members," YouTube told GSMArena, quoted on Tuesday, February 3. "We have updated the experience to ensure consistency across all our platforms."
Videos will now automatically stop within a few seconds after the phone screen is turned off or when the user switches applications. In addition to stopping the audio, Google also removes support for controlling YouTube from the phone's lock screen.
The removal of this support ensures that users cannot continue to play videos, unless they have a Premium account. This restriction, according to a report from 9to5google, is also visible in Safari on iOS.
For Premium customers, playback will still pause briefly when the screen is off, but the playback controls will not disappear. Paid users can still press the rewind button from the lock screen to continue listening to audio video.
The English, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and French versions are automatically generated by the AI. So there may still be inaccuracies in translating, please always see Indonesian as our main language. (system supported by DigitalSiber.id)
