Free YouTube users report that audio now stops when videos are minimised or screens are locked on mobile browsers.

YouTube has stopped background playback on mobile browsers. Here’s what changed, why Google did it, and how it affects users ...

A Chrome extension posing as an Amazon ad blocker was caught hijacking affiliate links in the background, redirecting ...

Like the surface of the ocean, the surface web is just a fraction of the internet as a whole. Back in 2017, some estimates ...

YouTube is working to block free background play in third-party browsers and their extensions in an effort to encourage ...

Google is "aligning" the YouTube experience by killing background play in Brave, Safari, and Edge. Is the Vinegar extension the last loophole left standing?

YouTube has quietly pushed an update to its mobile website to block background playback on some third-party web browsers, but ...

Google says it has started enforcing its YouTube Premium requirement for background playback on mobile.

Up until recently, users have been able to bypass free YouTube's background play restriction by using YouTube via a browser.

YouTube this week blocked millions of Android users from accessing free background play through Samsung Internet, Brave, Vivaldi, and Microsoft Edge as the platform ...

YouTube has been updated so that non-Premium users can no longer access background playback by accessing a third-party ...

YouTube's background play feature has stopped working on Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Brave, and other browsers.