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My big issue is the backgrounding. I like watching a video while cooking, but I also need to use timers. Not having the video stop and re-orient itself to portrait while I quickly set or dismiss a timer is excellent. I also find the UI during live streams to be borderline unusable on mobile.

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> My big issue is the backgrounding. I like watching a video while cooking, but I also need to use timers. Not having the video stop and re-orient itself to portrait while I quickly set or dismiss a timer is excellent.

Background playback is a paid feature. You may disagree with that decision but the option is there if you wanted it.

This is my primary use case for Newpipe. There is another workaround by using desktop mode in Firefox Android.

If you run Firefox nightly, it's possible to enable additional extensions, including background video fix.

Good news is Video Background Play Fix is among the (admittedly few) extension that are enabled in Firefox for Android [0]. No need to use the nightly version.

How badly Mozilla messed up with Firefox on Android is worth another topic, however.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/video-background...

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