Tag: YouTube
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More Streaming Services Could Join Netflix, Disney, and YouTube’s War on Password Sharing
Netflix set out to eliminate password sharing this year, and while the crackdown is far from finished, the media giant is winning over its rival streaming services. Despite the initial anger from viewers, Netflix saw an explosion of new signups once it began charging U.S. customers extra to share passwords. In June, reports said subscriptions…
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YouTube Copyright Scammers Must Pay $3.3 Million to Hundreds Exploited Music Artists
Cybercriminals posing as music rightsholders were arrested and sentenced to prison after extracting over $23 million in revenue from YouTube’s Content ID system. After about 800 impacted artists came forward, the court has ordered the scammers to pay $3.3 million in restitution. Under the company MediaMuv LLC., Webster Batista and Jose Teran claimed to own…
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YouTube Tests AI Music Tool That Auto-Generates Songs Using the Voices of T-Pain, Charlie Puth, and More
YouTube gave users a sneak peek of its first artificial intelligence-based music experiment, Dream Track for Shorts. The tools let users create custom songs on the fly with a system that mimics popular artists like Charlie Puth to use as a soundtrack for their YouTube Shorts. YouTube, like its parent Google, is experimenting with the…
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YouTube Reportedly Showed Porn in Ads
Overnight reports of inappropriate ads on YouTube started to flood in. According to multiple reports on Reddit, YouTube showed a video ad between YouTube Shorts for a pet meet-up app. In the background of the video was a porn playing with full audio in a very not safe for work experience. Update: YouTube has sent…
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YouTube Premium is Cracking Down On Password Sharing At The Same Time it Cracks Down on Ad-Blockers
You can add YouTube Premium to a growing list of streaming services that are cracking down on password sharing. YouTube Premium lets subscribers enjoy ad-free YouTube plus other features like offline viewing. Now, though, YouTube Premium has started to contact users who appear to be sharing their premium subscriptions with others. In the emails (an…
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YouTube Will Now Tell You if a Video Contains AI-Generated Content
In response to the explosive popularity and interest in artificial intelligence, YouTube said it’s making some changes to its platform. The video-sharing app said it’s rolling out new disclosure requirements and content labels to help viewers better identify videos that contain “altered or synthetic content.” Namely, creators must disclose when they’ve “created altered or synthetic…
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YouTube’s Ad-Blocker Crackdown Might Violate Privacy Laws
YouTube’s “global efforts” to banish ad-blockers may hit a snag in the European Union. Last month, privacy expert Alexander Hanff, reportedly filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission arguing that YouTube’s ad-blocker detection system is a privacy violation — illegal under the EU’s ePrivacy Directive. Hanff is accusing the Google-owned video sharing app…
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YouTube Premium Tests Generative AI Features That Help With Comments and Content Discovery
YouTube Premium subscribers may soon get some assistance from an artificial intelligence system that will make it easier to read through comments and find new videos. YouTube, which is owned by Google, said on Monday that it would roll out two generative AI features to select Premium subscribers. The first is a system that will…
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A New YouTube Feature Makes Pausing and Unpausing Videos Less Jarring
YouTube has a wealth of features to help with your streaming binges, from audio-only capabilities to curating a queue of videos tailored to your viewing habits. Cord Cutters News noticed a new feature flying under the radar that slightly rewinds paused videos. When we paused a video briefly, it resumed where we left off. But…
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After Last Week’s YouTube TV NFL Sunday Ticket Outage, Google Says They Are Ready For This Week Games
Last Sunday, YouTube, YouTube TV, and NFL Sunday Ticket had their first major outage of the 2023-2024 NFL season. This resulted in many fans being unable to watch their games during heavy buffering. A message on YouTube TV’s help page YouTube last Sunday said, “If you’re experiencing buffering issues on YouTube our team is aware…