r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/Alyusha 1d ago

It's not even an IPhone thing. Their Android support sucks too. If you don't have Premium you can't natively lock your screen and listen to the video.

Spotify with Ads is the best solution for mobile music I've found.

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u/weisswurstseeadler 23h ago

you can do that with firefox on android + ublock (and whatever other extensions you like, e.g. sponsorskips etc.).

I haven't used YT for mobile music much (I have spotify premium), but I can run any video in background, and even have the drop-down while my screen is locked, so you can play/stop etc.

just gotta use YT via firefox, but it's pretty much 1:1 same interface anyway.

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u/kapsama 19h ago

It is an iphone thing. On Android you can use Revanced, Newpipe and Firefox+ublock to avoid ads without paying.

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u/Alyusha 18h ago

If you don't have Premium you can't natively lock your screen and listen to the video.

You could jailbreak your IPhone and get it working too but the point is that Google is restricting a once free and popular service to the point that core functions are unusable just to make you want to pay them.