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Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by namelost on Sunday February 25, 2018 @10:08PM (#16462776)
It's even stupider than that.

When I first subscribed to Google Play Music, in the UK, it included "YouTube Music Key", which had the same feature to allow YouTube videos to play in the background, and it worked just fine in the UK.

Then they rebranded YouTube Music Key to YouTube Red, and since YouTube Red isn't available in the UK for legal reasons unrelated to backgrounding YouTube videos, they disabled the backgrounding feature in the UK, even though UK subscribers are still paying for a YouTube Red subscription (that cannot be used in the UK).

Re:Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ by nasredin on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:04AM (#16464263)
OK, stop. You've convinced me. Software programmed by attention merchants (advertisers) and IP prostitutes (lawyers) instead of engineers is stupid.