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>>bewal4+(OP)
The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page:

> These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you).

At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing!

>>mastaz+f3
I just opened it in incognito in Chrome on Android

noticed that the YouTube videos continue playing without interruption even when I switch to another tab or minimize chrome altogether and switch to another app.

how can we harness this power to play our favorite audio tracks in background (without any ads to boot ... shhh don't tell Google)

I also notice that the website triggers a browser warning when loading that it is not secure.

>>albert+y9
There was an iOS app that used to let you do this; it would play music via Youtube embeds in a hidden web view, exposing its own UI for all the functionality you'd expect from a music streaming app.

Whether this was legal is... a gray area, it was a somewhat legitimate company that won some kind of Canadian startup contest on TV, but the music industry was, very predictably, furious at their business model.

Eventually, Apple got scared enough of being sued along with them that they caved in and removed the app, but that took far longer than I thought it would.

There's a good article at https://torrentfreak.com/apple-removes-parasitic-streaming-a...

>>miki12+Ch
On Android you can use NewPipe for a similar experience. For obvious reasons it's not on Google's Play Store, but you can get it from F-Droid or Github.

>>wongar+0k
The Tubular fork of NewPipe is worth noting, https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular n a Revanced patched YT app would also work.