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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Everyone shipping Chromium-based browsers should patch out the whitelist, and competing browsers should all make YouTube require explicit user opt-in for auto-play.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Did you know YouTube uses a fancy browser API to intentionally disable playing videos in the background on mobile to coerce people into buying YouTube Red? Would not be surprised if they strong armed the Chromium team into doing this via management.
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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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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibility_API … is the API they use if you're curious. It successfully breaks it in Firefox too. Fully expect that they'll start waging a war against scraping tools like NewPipe soon too. It doesn't use the API which is how it bypasses some of the arbitrary restrictions.
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Browsers just need a feature to block page visibility API for a user's selected sites, or a menu button to "continue in background" that holds page-visibility true.
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