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I pay for YT premium, but it’s less because of the ads, and more because of the stupid restriction of not being allowed background play if my phone is locked.

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Once upon a time we paid for features, instead of paying to remove inbuilt annoyances.

(In a sense, this is getting too close to paying a bully to stop harassing you).

This used to work for free, they went out of their way to disable it so they could charge for it.

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