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 …
-
Show this thread
-
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.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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.
1 reply 3 retweets 3 likes -
-
Replying to @RichFelker
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.
2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @CopperheadOS
Oh yeah, it's on F-Droid. Can't other browsers do background video/audio though? If not, whose decision was that?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
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.
2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CopperheadOS
I think a simple extension could break the API (preventing YT from detecting it's in the background) in Firefox, couldn't it?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @RichFelker
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.
2 replies 1 retweet 1 like
Thanks for the link! Works great.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.