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Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple required app developers to inform users about broader tracking so they could choose to agree or opt out of tracking. In 2021, Google apps stopped using certain tracking methods (IDFA) to comply with the requirements and ...
Read MoreYouTube team has started a new experiment aimed at combating the spread of fakes and misinformation on the platform. As part of the experiment, YouTube will allow adding notes to publicly available videos. It seems that this feature is very similar t...
Read MoreThe YouTube team has shared information about some experimental features being tested on the platform. Typically, such features are available for a short period of time and only to a small group of people. One of the features currently being tested i...
Read MoreThe developer of the SponsorBlock extension, designed to skip sponsored video segments, has stated that YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad integration. This should mean that now the ad is part of the video being streamed to your device, rat...
Read MoreAmerican video blogger Alex Choi has faced federal charges after posting a video on YouTube in which two women shoot fireworks from a helicopter aimed at a Lamborghini. The blogger, with nearly 1 million subscribers, usually posts videos dedicated to...
Read MoreYouTube is changing the rules regarding videos with weapons. They will be age-restricted, and some will be completely banned. Content featuring homemade and automatic firearms will be prohibited for viewers under 18, while instructional videos on rem...
Read MoreContractor Google used administrator rights to access private information on the Nintendo YouTube account. According to a copy of Google's internal database, leaked several years ago, in 2017, images of the trailer for the then unnamed and unannounce...
Read MoreAdvertising is the biggest source of revenue for Meta, so the company plans to make it even more intrusive on Instagram. According to social media reports, Instagram users have noticed a new type of advertisement in the app, similar to YouTube, that...
Read MoreIt seems that YouTube continues to encourage users to disable ad blockers. The new restriction is quite strict - it does not allow users to watch videos at all if they have an ad blocker activated for YouTube. This week, many have noticed that YouTu...
Read MoreThe YouTube Music app for Android is rolling out a feature that has long been requested - hum and find a song. You can sing, whistle, or play a recording of a song to find it. If the feature is working, after clicking search in the top right corner o...
Read MoreTikTok has started testing the upload of long-hour videos, which YouTube is unlikely to like. The feature is available in a limited number of countries, but will not become widely available in the near future, according to company sources (via TechCr...
Read MoreThe YouTube app for Android TV has received an interface update. Developers have added new animation when accessing the side menu panel with updated highlighting of elements during navigation. When accessing the YouTube side panel in the Android TV a...
Read MoreIn March, YouTube began testing a new feature called Jump ahead, and now it has become available to a wider range of users through the youtube.com/new section. It is available to Premium version service subscribers. Jump ahead is an artificial intel...
Read MoreYouTube administration continues its war against ad blockers and this time strikes at the tools that allow watching videos on mobile devices without showing ads. The service announced that it is "strengthening [its] measures against third-party appli...
Read MoreYouTube continues to fight against ad blocking. In June of last year, the service conducted a small experiment on this matter, then in October started a full-scale attack on ad blockers. Now the company is once again tightening restrictions in this a...
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