Brave should block websites from detecting focus (desktop)

[uri]

instagram, tiktok, google search etc’ detect when you’re navigating away and pause the video

the browser should not allow this

[dae]

This seems like a privacy feature really worth considering.

Other requests for the same:

Prevent Website From Detecting That I Lost Attention To The Browser Window

I watch streaming on a website when the website detects that I have lost attention to the website window (eg. I moved to another browser tab, or clicked on another program, or minimized the browser window), it will stop playing. Is there any way that I can stop this behaviour so that I can still listen to the streaming even the browser window is not in the foreground?

Keep Video's Playing When Tab is not in Active View

No I already did that, as I mentioned It’s mostly a JavaScript programming issue where sneaky web developers are implementing code where if the tab you are on loses “focus” the video automatically stops on purposes because the browser sends a signal to the JavaScript saying the user opened another tab or browser so stop the video. The only solution would be to “Trick” the javascript code of the tab to make it think that the tab is still in focus. I found an addon in the Chrome store but does no…