Description of the issue: YouTube on brave it’s not running in the background anymore. Until yesterday, it was okay, but since this morning, everyone I change tabs or minimize, the video stops. Operating System and Brave Version(See the About Brave page in the main menu): Android 12 Brave 1. 86.1…

Yeah so we’re seeing a lot of these reports. Some team members are able to reproduce this but others can’t. Looks like its Google/Youtube doing some A/B testing on the account side, which is why background play works for affected users if they’re not signed in but stops if they sign in. Team is tak…

[image] Sonen: Mine is a Samsung Galaxy 9 [image] Mattches: Looks like its Google/Youtube doing some A/B testing on the account side, which is why background play works for affected users if they’re not signed in but stops if they sign in. It’s not device related, it’s account related. …

Hi! I am having the same problem since this afternoon (in hungary) . Im on an iphone 17, it was working for a week on this new phone and all of a sudden it stopped today. No updates or anything. I tried the browser mode on my phone as well as incognito and it didn’t work either…

Update: I just tested and the background play is back to normal.

Was a seperate issue, uBO was attempting to fix another YT issue

Hi, It got back to normal during the night ! I tested on jan. 25th 00:30 Paris time and it worked.

What are the chances that this A/B testing affects Google web store for extensions (and even some extensions as well) ? See: Unable to open the Google extension web store and certain extensions

Hi everyone, The problem is back tonight, it 23:00 Paris time, only this time the problem remains in a private tab and/or logged out. Maybe this previous A/B testing gave Google just the feedback they needed to prevent Brave users from using YT freely ?

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MasterLink January 25, 2026, 3:40am 30

Interesting. I wonder if it was then somehow related to this fix that was pushed: YouTube - Bookmarks and comment replies won't open - #4 by fanboynz

For everyone else that had background play issues while signed in, how’s it now?

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