this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Oh it was so much worse than that. Google indirectly banned every 3rd party app on the Play Store from streaming videos in the background to push that feature. Seemingly overnight every app that could do it vanished or cut the feature. Sure you can sideload a fix but your average non-savvy users got screwed into paying up.
Firefox can with a "Recommended" addon
I opted to switch to NewPipe and YMusic and haven't looked back since.