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I use YouTube to listen to music while I work. I usually leave a playlist going while I work in other tabs or other programs altogether.
Sometimes, I have yet to determine what triggers it, YouTube stops the playback and presents me with this message:
Is it possible to deactivate this behavior? Is there an option hidden somewhere in the YouTube account that allows me to avoid this nuisance?
There are third party extensions like 'Continue Watching' for Chrome that can solve this.
YouTube doesn't offer this functionality natively, likely because this popup is a cost saving measure of some sort.
For anyone interested: there are extensions for it on Chrome and Firefox.
Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-nonstop/nlkaejimjacpillmajjnopmpbkbnocid
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-nonstop/
