I tried relaunching app,uninstalling and reinstalling,disable battery optimizer,cleaned memory and everything you can think of The only thing that works is when all cookies are blocked Description of the issue: How can this issue be reproduced? Open youtube website from brave browser app S…

Discussion topic:brave won't play in background after closing app

Mattches Closed January 23, 2026, 7:31pm 2

This is a known issue, likely due to Youtube doing A/B account testing. Please follow the main thread here for updates:

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