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YouTube may limit access to videos for Ad-Blocker users

Guru@TWCN — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 09:45:36 +0000

YouTube has begun a crackdown on the usage of ad blockers and it is planning to limit access to the number of videos on YouTube you can view if you are using an ad blocker to bypass the ads. YouTube is one of the top streaming services allowing you to stream free video content. The […]

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YouTube Gaming hits 100 bn Watch Hours, Minecraft tops the list

ShiwangiPeswani@TWC — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:30:50 +0000

YouTube Gaming has hit 100 billion watch-time hours in 2020 with Minecraft being on the top. Gaming content on the web is now bigger than ever, because of the current pandemic. In the midst of the coronavirus, people found games to be at their rescue and YouTube’s statistics for the year 2020 are just the […]

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YouTube to feature ads on non-partner videos; but will not pay the creators

AnkitGupta@TWCN — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 14:30:19 +0000

In the recent updates in YouTube’s Terms of Service, the video-sharing platform changed a few terms. According to the new terms and conditions, the company will roll out the ads on the videos from channels that are not in the YouTube Partner Program or YPP. However, the creators of the videos won’t receive a share […]

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GitHub removes free YouTube downloader after DMCA takedown notice

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:47:21 +0000

After receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Microsoft disabled one of the popular GitHub repositories – YouTube-dl. In case you don’t know, YouTube-dl is one of the best open-source projects to download videos from YouTube and many other video hosting platforms. The GitHub repository […]

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YouTube Error AS-10 OR 500 prevents connection to AdSense

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:06:32 +0000

When you try to connect your eligible YouTube Channel to your existing AdSense account, you fail and receive error messages – Oops something went wrong, Error AS-10 OR AS-08 OR 500, That’s an error, then know that you are not alone. YouTube has acknowledged this server-sided bug, which is preventing content creators from monetizing their […]

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Google turning YouTube into e-commerce website to compete with Amazon

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:30:50 +0000

According to Bloomberg, Google is taking on Amazon’s e-commerce business with a grand debut in the online shopping space. After launching Shoploop, a TikTok-style influencer marketing and video commerce platform, Google is readying YouTube to emerge as the new king of the e-commerce industry. This way, Google is looking to compete with Amazon and various […]

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YouTube brings back human moderators to combat misinformation

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:42:31 +0000

Human moderators will oversee YouTube content, the Google-owned video streaming platform has announced. As a result, YouTube will no longer rely on artificial intelligence (AI) based automated systems to perform content moderation. Earlier this year, Google made the decision of putting AI to the content moderation work for YouTube in the wake of the pandemic. […]

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Regret watching videos recommended by YouTube? Mozilla working on fix!

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:00:22 +0000

Mozilla wants to study and fix YouTube recommendations. As a result, the Mozilla Foundation has announced a new browser extension called RegretsReporter for Firefox and Chrome. Users often complain about seeing irrelevant recommendations from YouTube.’ Last year, the Google-owned video streaming platform was hit by a weird problem that littered the YouTube homepage with older, […]

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YouTube Shorts is Google’s answer to TikTok in India; Launching soon

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:08:26 +0000

YouTube has jumped on the short-form video bandwagon with YouTube Shorts, which will compete with TikTok. YouTube is all set to experiment with Shorts in India. Over the next few days, YouTube will roll out an early beta of Shorts. As a result, content creators in India will be able to tinker around with YouTube’s […]

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Data leak puts privacy of 235 million Instagram, TikTok, YouTube users at risk

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:51:07 +0000

In what could be a massive data leak, an unsecured database of nearly 235 million Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube users was left wide open for anyone to access on the Internet, according to a security researcher Bob Diachenko. Although this may not qualify as a data breach per se, an incident like this can be […]

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You can block ads on YouTube with this simple URL trick

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 05:30:14 +0000

A Reddit user has come up with a new nifty trick to block ads on YouTube, and it simply involves the addition of a punctuation mark (.) immediately after the .com part in the URL. Interestingly, this also eliminates the need for the installation of any additional plugin or extensions on your web browser. But […]

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Beware! YouTube account credential theft is on the rise, warns security researchers

TanmayPatange@TWCN — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 05:29:01 +0000

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new trend that sees a growing interest from black markets and cybercrime forums. The emerging trend highlights how a significant number of stolen credentials for prominent YouTube accounts are up for grabs on Dark Web. Stolen YouTube credentials are now in demand Researchers at a cyber intelligence firm IntSignts continue […]

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