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		tirpen on Oct 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web That works fine without any extensions at all, so I'm unsure what does the extension even does?

Liquid_Fire on Oct 28, 2024 [–]

YouTube deliberately tries to prevent background playback by using web APIs to detect when the page is no longer visible and pausing the video. The extension prevents YouTube from doing that.

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