
Needless to say, the extension is completely free of charge, and it works with both YouTube and YouTube Music. Continue watching?" confirmation dialog? This extension autoclicks it, so you can listen to your favorite music uninterrupted,” it adds.

Such as un-pausing the video when paused and auto-clicking the confirmation box.”

“This extension doesn't keep the confirmation box from popping up. One thing you should know, however, is that the extension isn’t supposed to block the YouTube message from showing up on the screen, as the developer explains in the description. The extension doesn’t come with any UI, so it’s enough to simply install it and then enjoy YouTube without any interruption. They are called YouTube NonStop and can be downloaded using these links for Chrome and Firefox. In the case of YouTube, Google doesn’t provide users with any method of disabling this behavior, so pretty much everyone could get the notification when playing longer videos in the background or playlists.īut as typically happens with such changes, you can disable them even if Google doesn’t specifically let you to, and it’s all possible thanks to extensions available for the two most popular browsers in the world, namely Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.īoth of them have been around for a while and are created by the same developer known as lawfx. This is something that other services have been using as well, as eating up the bandwidth for no reason, such as when leaving the room for a longer period of time, it’s helping anyone. So technically, these users enjoy the benefits of YouTube but get around ads by not opening the website.īy introducing the aforementioned prompt that requires manual input, YouTube makes sure that users continue to interact with the page. In theory, this is something that’s really useful for everyone because they can listen to music without opening YouTube, but from Google’s perspective, it means these passive viewers do not watch ads that bring home the bacon. The same thing for playlists, which make it super-easy for YouTube users to listen to their favorite music without opening the site once after the playback starts. While very little has been said officially on this new feature, its purpose is as simple as it could be: Google wants to reduce the number of passive viewers who typically load long videos, like music mixes, and then let them play in the background. Continue watching?” the notification reads, and users are required to click “YES” to continue playing. The playback is automatically paused and user interaction is required to resume.

Google has recently updated YouTube with a new prompt that shows up over a video whenever the user has been inactive for a specific amount of time.
