Oh no! Imma use a hacked APK and get all that shit for free!
I can play videos while in different apps.
It’s just not always super consistent.
The frustrating thing is that I’d be perfectly happy to pay maybe $50 a year for Premium, but YouTube got greedy so now they get adblocked instead.
I can’t believe anyones actually bought Premium?
The fact that you have to pay for being able to listen to music with the phone in your pocket (like what the…) is what made me switch to using the app NewPipe. Highly recommend.
I cancelled my YouTube premium in January as money was a bit tight that month. Turns out 80% of the channels I watch have been demonitised, so there is no need to pay for premium to avoid ads anymore for me lol.
You are not entitled to anything. Infact you are lucky that YouTube isn’t as greedy as other platforms. And to be completely honest, these make sense to be part of the paid service, The screen locked would make it so you don’t have to deal with ads as much, making the paid service ultimately useless.
YouTube at least also doesn’t take away features from their free tier to add to their premium tier that have been part of basic apps for practically decades. An example of what I mean is Spotify taking away going to the previous track and turning on/off shuffle mid 2023.
Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me
Really hate what YouTubes’ been doing lately
Even if they needed money, which they dont, there is a lot other ways of getting it
Vultures in the company are trying to profit from options that were already in the app or should be free
As someone who uses a lot of youtube for listening to music, i wished i could just turn off my phone screen and relax with the music
Nothing will bring back old youtube, and its sad, because i miss a lot of old mechanics
Clearly ever since the first owner of the company sold it to google, most changes have been for the worse
Especially the removal of the dislike button, for real though, why keep it then, its completely useless now, at least bring back the old star rating
Don’t buy youtube premium, there are plenty of ways of getting the most out of YouTube without paying them for a subscription for content they don’t create
;D
For everyone who wants to tell youtube to F off with their recent bullshit: Revanced. Google it. (Android only unfortunately)
“I should be able to do whatever I want with an app for free because I’m entitled to whatever I want” lol plenty of people, myself included pay specifically for those features
Technically you can if you use pip then lock it (this works on some phones)
On Iphone you can listen to videos while the screen is off.
Step 1: Start playing the video
Step 2: Swipe up from the bottom, the video should be in miniplayer mode at the bottom of the screen. The video must be playing for the next step.
Step 3: Swipe down from the top of your phone, the audio will pause automatically. you have to unpause.
After these steps, you can listen with the screen off! I like to use this for YouTube specific podcasts or commentary videos.
When I played a video on YouTube with browser, I activated full-screen mode and decided to tap to middle round button. Then I can actually watching videos without any problems with switching apps. Also, I should listen my mom advice for telling me to download YouTube Revanced. We have that on our Huawei Tablet before losing the tablet.
Yes, I know it’s so annoying they used to give us that and now they took it away once premium came out
Some phones do allow you to do those for free mine allowed them both but now playing for other apps it’s a hit or miss now Sometimes when I am playing a video on YouTube and go to the home or open tabs section the video still keeps on paying in a miniplayer but it doesn’t always work now. I can still play the videos when the screen is turned off just the audio coming out I still got that feature Fully working. This is the good thing about Android being open source anyone can make modifications to the OS and thus add features
so when are you building revanced
Why should it be? It’s youtube’s app, they can do whatever they want, why do people feel entitled to these features?
The ability to add the next video to be played should be available on the app itself without extra sub, not just when casting. This inconsistency creates an inconvenience for users who prefer to play videos directly from their device.
Idk abt y’all but those two are fucking annoying imo, i hated closing youtube bc im getting off my phone and the shit kept playing (i had it for three months bc discord nitro gift)