#Google policy

Google has officially confirmed that it is closing long-standing loopholes that allowed users to play YouTube videos in the background without a YouTube Premium subscription. Following a surge of user complaints in recent days, Google confirmed that it has updated YouTube’s behavior across platforms to block background playback for non-Premium users. While some non-Premium users may have previously been able to access this through mobile web browsers in certain scenarios, we have updated the experience to ensure consistency across all our platforms,” Google said in a statement. With this move, Google is reinforcing the paywall around Premium features and signaling stricter enforcement going forward. Google is now allowing users to request that more of their personal information be removed from the search engine results. A new Google privacy policy is aimed at stopping the activities of hackers, or malicious entities preying on sensitive information that can cause harm to users. Previously, users can ask Google to remove personal data from search results although it was limited to ID numbers, banking information, photos of signatures and medical records. Users can access the Google support page to register URLs containing their personal identity information that should be restricted from showing in search results. Read more in our articles including "Google closes browser loopholes for YouTube background playback" and "Google expands privacy policy, hide more personal info".