[Update: Rolling out widely in the US] YouTube testing picture-in-picture mode for those without Red subscriptions

• Update 1: 2018/06/27 1:16am PDT
  Many more users without any paid subscription (Red/Premium/whatever-you-wanna-call-it) are now able to play non-music YouTube videos as picture-in-picture even when they switch out of the app. However, it seems

When Android 8.0 Oreo introduced picture-in-picture (PiP) mode, the obvious beneficiary of the new feature was Google's first-party YouTube app. Unfortunately, Google decided at the time that the advantage of nested playback was best locked behind a YouTube Red subscription.

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