# pinning a window doesn't work for youtube

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856>\
**Category:** Configuration Help & General Discussion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856 "2026-09-23T19:54:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/u/mgmartino)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 7:54pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856/1 "2026-09-23T19:54:59Z")

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trying to pin a chrome chrome window that is playing a youtube video. It works for a few seconds but when I click other windows the video quickly turns to this...?

 ![Screenshot 2026-09-23 at 3.53.29 PM](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/d/7/d7f021389e27b4498c683b01a02e8bcec602f52f.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856/2 "2026-09-23T20:00:00Z")

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unfortunately this is a DRM limitation due to the way how pinning works (it basically captures & streams a copy of the window to the top).

If a youtube video is DRM protected, capturing it is not possible, thus pinning fails. There is no way to workaround this.

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**Author:** ![mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/u/mgmartino)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 8:03pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856/3 "2026-09-23T20:03:25Z")

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Does you happen to know of another application I could use for pinning windows on a mac?

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856/4 "2026-09-23T20:09:13Z")

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They all work the same way and will face the same issue. Only if you are willing to disable SIP (not recommended) and inject code into the Dock process, there are apps like Yabai that can do it better.

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**Author:** ![mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@mgmartino](https://community.folivora.ai/u/mgmartino)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/pinning-a-window-doesnt-work-for-youtube/47856/5 "2026-09-24T04:23:25Z")

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I see. Okay thank you for your reply.