General / Off-Topic Help required with Youtube.

[Stealthie]

A bit random, but still...

I often have music from Youtube playing while I'm flying my ships in ED.

Recently I've noticed that the music will stop and when I alt-tab back to my desktop there's a small pop-up in the web-browser (Chrome in W10) saying "Playback has been paused. Press OK to continue".

With hindsight, I probably should have screengrabbed it but it's just a small, white, dialogue box with black text and (IIRC) a light-blue border.
It doesn't have anything in the header bar (which I understand is contrary to MS's policy for design), it doesn't reference anything to do with Youtube and it's style doesn't match any part of Youtube either.

Next time it happens I'll screengrab it but, in the mean-time, anybody know what might be causing this and how to get rid of it?

 

[rootsrat]

Quick google search suggests that someone else is using that account on a different device. Me and wifey have separate accouts, so I don't have any experience in family or shared YouTube accounts, but could that be the culprit in your case?

 

[Chris Simon]

Yes, that is right. ^^
And it really really sucks. Another "feature" that nobody asked for and that is only annoying and nothing else. Guess it saves Google some bandwidth, because I can't figure out what else could it be good for. Absolutely stupid idea.

When I'm home, I stick my tablet into Hi-fi and play ambient music from Youtube. Just random stuff, I like those three-hour jazz compilations, etc... I don't like complete silence. But now I have to get up from the PC every hour or so and go tell Youtube that yes, I am still listening.
I've got a phone, a tablet, PC and a laptop. Naturally I log in with just one Google account on all of them, so basically whenever I go on Youtube on any of them, I have to go reset the music. Eeeeeurgggh.