Brave adds ad-free YouTube playback with background play
Brave Browser offers an ad-free YouTube viewing experience with background play and picture-in-picture (PiP) features. This allows for faster and private streaming without requiring a YouTube Premium subscription.
Key Takeaways
- Brave Browser is positioned as an ad-free way to watch YouTube videos.
- The browser supports background play for YouTube.
- Picture-in-picture, or PiP, is included.
- The article says the experience is faster and private.
- YouTube Premium is not required.
Why It Matters
Brave is packaging YouTube viewing features that normally sit behind a subscription into the browser layer: ad-free playback, background play, and picture-in-picture. That matters because it changes where the viewing experience is controlled — inside the browser rather than by YouTube Premium. The broader streaming angle is straightforward: browser capabilities can now substitute for parts of a paid video tier. What to watch next is whether Brave keeps this positioning limited to YouTube, or expands the same playback model to other streaming sites.
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