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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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