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If you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. https://support.google.com/youtube/an

by ternus 10mo ago

If you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883

BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done. Thank goodness for ReVanced.
- charcircuit 10mo ago
  It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.
  - jayknight 10mo ago
    Is this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off.
    - SoftTalker 10mo ago
      Yes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser).
      - tcfhgj 10mo ago
        So does ReVanced YouTube
      - cuu508 10mo ago
        In a browser, it works even without Youtube Premium :-) Firefox mobile, m.youtube.com, "Video Background Play Fix" browser extension.
        fdgjgbdfhgb 10mo ago
        Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone
    - nsoqm 10mo ago
      On iOS I use Brave and it works fine.
    - BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
      No. What you describe is correct: No background play via the yt app unless you pay.
- cons0le 10mo ago
  >I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed. At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8
amanzi 10mo ago
Interesting - hadn't heard of this option before. But I see that "Premium Lite" is not available in NZ... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=9275264344830860962-NC#zippy=%2Cpremium-lite-memberships-available-locations https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=92752...
- air7 10mo ago
  But at least you have IKEA
  - amanzi 10mo ago
    The whole country is rejoicing!
tracker1 10mo ago
Wasn't aware of this option... I'd actually switched to YT Music because the family plan for YT premium is/was pretty good. Nice to know I can bring it down in the future.

by ternus 10mo ago

BLKNSLVR 10mo ago

I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done. Thank goodness for ReVanced.

charcircuit 10mo ago
It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.
- jayknight 10mo ago
  Is this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off.
  - SoftTalker 10mo ago
    Yes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser).
    - tcfhgj 10mo ago
      So does ReVanced YouTube
    - cuu508 10mo ago
      In a browser, it works even without Youtube Premium :-) Firefox mobile, m.youtube.com, "Video Background Play Fix" browser extension.
      - fdgjgbdfhgb 10mo ago
        Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone
  - nsoqm 10mo ago
    On iOS I use Brave and it works fine.
  - BLKNSLVR 10mo ago
    No. What you describe is correct: No background play via the yt app unless you pay.
cons0le 10mo ago
>I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed. At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8

amanzi 10mo ago

Interesting - hadn't heard of this option before. But I see that "Premium Lite" is not available in NZ... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=9275264344830860962-NC#zippy=%2Cpremium-lite-memberships-available-locations https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=92752...

air7 10mo ago
But at least you have IKEA
- amanzi 10mo ago
  The whole country is rejoicing!

tracker1 10mo ago

Wasn't aware of this option... I'd actually switched to YT Music because the family plan for YT premium is/was pretty good. Nice to know I can bring it down in the future.