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

Using certain third-party browsers to get background playback is reportedly going away. Most users tend to associate and purchase YouTube Premium to ...

A long-standing workaround that allowed YouTube videos to keep playing in the background through third-party Android browsers ...

Samsung Internet, Brave, and other third-party browser users on Android have noticed their non-Premium workaround is no longer functioning.

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