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I haven't experienced this specifically on YouTube, but you may be talking about the Page Visibility API [0]. I've tried to disable it natively in Firefox and C

I haven't experienced this specifically on YouTube, but you may be talking about the Page Visibility API [0]. I've tried to disable it natively in Firefox and Chrome (without extensions) but with no avail. It can even tell if I switch desktops in i3wm. Here's two demos [1][2]. I'm guessing it's saving $$$ on bandwidth. I just want the option to turn it off. [0] https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/ https://www.w3.org/TR/page-visibility-2/ [1] http://daniemon.com/tech/webapps/page-visibility/ http://daniemon.com/tech/webapps/page-visibility/ [2] https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/PageVisibility/Default.html https://testdrive-archive.azurewebsites.net/Performance/Page...

teapot01 7y ago
The pause button make sense, force users to focus on the page briefly every now and then to save bandwidth - Netflix does something similar to prevent long running auto-play. The looping is quite different though, there's no legitimate use for it, and I can't find any controls that would allow you to set a song to auto-repeat. So it's either a bug that they're struggling to fix or an intentional change to make play-lists less functional when you are not watching the platform.
rasz 7y ago
I quickly did something like this for Twitch, seems to work: document.hasFocus = function() { return true; } Object.defineProperty(document, 'hasFocus', {value: true}) document.hidden = function() { return false; } //Object.defineProperty(document, 'hidden', {value: false}) Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {get: function() { return false; } }); document.webkitHidden = function() { return false; } Object.defineProperty(document, 'webkitHidden', {value: false}) document.addEventListener("focus", function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); e.stopImmediatePropagation(); e.preventDefault(); return false; }, true); document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); e.stopImmediatePropagation(); e.preventDefault(); return false; }, true);

teapot01 7y ago

The pause button make sense, force users to focus on the page briefly every now and then to save bandwidth - Netflix does something similar to prevent long running auto-play. The looping is quite different though, there's no legitimate use for it, and I can't find any controls that would allow you to set a song to auto-repeat. So it's either a bug that they're struggling to fix or an intentional change to make play-lists less functional when you are not watching the platform.

rasz 7y ago

I quickly did something like this for Twitch, seems to work: document.hasFocus = function() { return true; } Object.defineProperty(document, 'hasFocus', {value: true}) document.hidden = function() { return false; } //Object.defineProperty(document, 'hidden', {value: false}) Object.defineProperty(document, "hidden", {get: function() { return false; } }); document.webkitHidden = function() { return false; } Object.defineProperty(document, 'webkitHidden', {value: false}) document.addEventListener("focus", function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); e.stopImmediatePropagation(); e.preventDefault(); return false; }, true); document.addEventListener("visibilitychange", function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); e.stopImmediatePropagation(); e.preventDefault(); return false; }, true);