Google has officially confirmed the closure of loopholes that allowed background play on third-party browsers for users without a YouTube Premium subscription.
Apart from avoiding ads, a YouTube Premium subscription offers many benefits, like background play, which enables users to continue listening to a YouTube video even after minimizing the browser or turning their phone’s screen off.
This is where long-standing loopholes arise, allowing users to bypass the paid restriction by using third-party browsers like Samsung Internet, Brave, or Vivaldi.
Following a surge of user complaints recently, the tech giant has confirmed that it is closing these background playback loopholes.
“Background playback is a feature intended to be exclusive for YouTube Premium members. While some non-Premium users may have previously been able to access this through mobile web browsers in certain scenarios, we have updated the experience to ensure consistency across all our platforms,” Google said in a statement.
Google did not specify the number of users affected by this change, but this change signals Google’s stricter enforcement of its features.
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