This is an utter shitshow, and if Google doesn't back down on it, Chrome should be made irrelevant.https://twitter.com/antumbral/status/996836266766303232 …
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NewPipe isn't allowed on the Play Store thanks to YouTube cracking down on anything like that so most people don't know about it.
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Oh yeah, it's on F-Droid. Can't other browsers do background video/audio though? If not, whose decision was that?
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If they implemented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API … it won't work. Chromium has great support for playing background audio / video including a specialized API offering a better experience but YouTube goes out of the way to break even the basic universal support for this.
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I think a simple extension could break the API (preventing YT from detecting it's in the background) in Firefox, couldn't it?
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There's https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/ … for that but it's quite possible Google would kick them off the Play Store if they knew Mozilla approved and even featured this.
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Seems highly unlikely. It would be a huge shitshow if they did.
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They do stuff like this all the time though: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/01/google-explicitly-bans-ad-blockers-from-the-play-store-except-all-those-ad-blocking-web-browsers-apparently/ …. They removed an ad-blocker for Samsung's browser too (not an OS level ad-blocker):https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/3/10905672/google-samsung-adblock-fast-android-ad-blocker-removal …
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Yeah but that's some random new thing from Samsung, not the most popular non-Google browser.
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