Tag: YouTube
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YouTube Announces Plans to Remove Videos With Medical Misinformation
This morning YouTube announced that it will start mass removals of videos with medical misinformation. YouTube says these removals will start today and continue over the next few weeks. “In the years since we began our efforts to make YouTube a destination for high-quality health content, we’ve learned critical lessons about developing Community Guidelines in…
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YouTube Gets More Aggressive In Banishing Ad Blockers
Ad-blockers will soon earn you a ban from YouTube. The platform is trying to drive up Premium memberships while cracking down on those sneaking around the free ad-supported tier. YouTube is testing a new anti-ad blocker featuring a countdown timer alerting users when the next ad will play. Users will see the clock popup appear…
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YouTube Now Offers a Way to Stop Video Recommendations
Do you love YouTube but are frustrated with endless video suggestions? YouTube now allows you to watch videos without the accompanying recommendations. YouTube keeps users entertained by recommending relatable content to the videos they watch. Yesterday, YouTube introduced a setting to eliminate recommendations for users who want to opt out. Users with a limited prior…
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YouTube is Getting Higher Quality Video on The Web if You Pay
Recently YouTube announced several new features to its YouTube Premium service, including the ability to get a higher-quality 1080p video if you pay for YouTube Premium. YouTube Premium is best known for offering an ad-free YouTube experience, and the ability to download videos offline is adding new features to its $ 11.99-a-month service. One of…
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Google Will Soon Delete Inactive Accounts, But Makes An Exception For YouTube Accounts
Today Google again announced plans to delete inactive accounts to free up these usernames for new owners. According to Google, if you have not used your Google account in the last two years, starting in December 2023, they will start deleting these accounts. This news applies to all their platforms except one, and that is…
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Netflix & YouTube Have More Daytime Viewers Than ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC As Cable TV Viewership Continues to Drop
We have all heard about how cable TV is struggling as they lose subscribers but they are also losing the battle of viewership. Now according to new numbers from TV Grim Reaper, who follows the world of TV, shows us how streaming is dominating traditional cable TV. TV Grim Reaper on Twitter follows streaming and…
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YouTube Raises The Price of YouTube Premium
Have you ever wished you could watch YouTube ad-free and download your videos for when you are offline? Now you will have to pay a little more as last night YouTube quietly raised the price of YouTube Premium by $2 a month to $13.99 or an annual subscription of $139.99, as first spotted by 9to5Google.…
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YouTube is Adding a New Feature to Make Watching Videos A Lot More Enjoyable
Have you ever been watching a video, and suddenly it goes from quiet to crazy load hurting your ears? Good news YouTube is testing a new “stable volume” feature that appears to help ensure the volume never gets to crazy load or too quiet. First spotted on Reddit and by M. Brandom Lee, this feature…
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YouTube is Rolling Out Quizzes To See if You Are Learning Anything
YouTube today announced that they are going to make YouTube a little more educational. Now, YouTube has started to roll out quizzes that creators can make about their videos. After you watch an educational video, you can now have the option to take a quiz on watch you watched to see if you learned anything.…
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YouTube is Testing Out AI-Powered Quizzes To See if You Are Learning Anything
Have you noticed your YouTube doesn’t quite match the app on your friends and family’s devices? That’s because YouTube is testing out several new features with select users. YouTube has a list of experiments on its help page going back a few years. While not all experiments have proven successful enough to launch to all…