newpipe is one of these apps that it is better than youtube
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I found this browser extension which is supposed to do that for YouTube. https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play. I rearranged the code into this tampermonkey script. https://gitlab.com/bteastman/block-window-visibility/-/blob/main/Block_window_focus.user.js. Source: about 1 year ago
If this add-on works for you https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play You can try setting https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings#userresourceslocation to raw version of this script https://gist.github.com/gwarser/3b47b61863bffcfebe4498c77b2301cd#file-video-bg-play-js and adding youtube.com##+js(video-bg-play) to My filters. Source: over 1 year ago
You can read about how it works and view its source code at https://github.com/mozilla/video-bg-play. Source: about 2 years ago
Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads. https://newpipe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago
Nice. Good for you. Unfortunately, It’s for Android only. https://newpipe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
I have a 3G device still able to watch YT and a very old Kindle Fire that has NewPipe [1] installed for watching YT in bed (whilst my phone is on charge). I don't see why not either - if the device was capable of H264 when it was released, why not now? [1] https://newpipe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
You should try https://newpipe.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
NewPipe on Android is also unaffected. Source: 5 months ago
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