A YouTube tab that doesn’t stop you.

TubeNonstop is a web-based YouTube player. You paste a video URL and we render it through the official YouTube IFrame Player API on this page. The result is the same video, played from your browser, with none of the host-page friction you get on youtube.com itself.

What problem this solves

Since 2018, YouTube shows a “Video paused. Continue watching?” prompt when it thinks you’ve walked away. For people who play long lo-fi mixes, podcasts, study music, ASMR, sports replays, or guitar lessons in the background, this dialog interrupts the session every 30-60 minutes and there’s no setting to turn it off.

Browser extensions like YouTube NonStop solve this on youtube.com itself, but they need permission to read every page on YouTube, get killed by Chrome’s memory saver, and break across browsers and updates.

TubeNonstop takes a different route: instead of patching youtube.com, we don’t use youtube.com at all. The pause prompt is code that lives on YouTube’s pages — when you embed the player on a different origin, the prompt has nowhere to render.

What you get

• No “Continue watching?” prompt — ever.
• AB Loop: mark a span, repeat it forever.
• Speed control 0.25× to 2×.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Space, [, ], C, R, J, L, N, ?
• Wake-lock + worker heartbeat to survive background-tab throttling.
• Your last loop points are remembered per video.
• Mobile-friendly. Bookmarkable URLs.

What we don’t do

• We don’t download, re-host, or modify YouTube videos. Content streams from YouTube’s own servers via their official Player API.
• We don’t require an account or store anything on our servers.
• We don’t bypass advertising. YouTube’s own ads still play inside the embedded player.
• We don’t replace YouTube Premium. If you want offline downloads or background play in the YouTube mobile app, that’s a separate purchase.

Limits & known caveats

A small number of videos disable embedding (the uploader sets that flag in YouTube Studio). Those won’t play here — you’ll get a player error. Age-restricted videos may also be blocked from third-party embeds by YouTube.

OS-level battery savers (especially on mobile) can still suspend the tab. Our keep-alive layer reduces this but cannot override the operating system.

Contact

Found a bug, want a feature, or want to embed TubeNonstop in your own product? Email hello@tubenonstop.com.