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YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'

Applications16 Apr 2024 | 70

Wipro appoints new CEO: 32-year veteran and current US boss Srini Pallia takes over

ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: YouTube's fake India election ad policy; Singtel not selling Optus; Do Chinese tech stalk former workers?

Channel07 Apr 2024 | 1

YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids

Not everything requires tagging so feel free to maintain unrealistic beauty standards

Personal Tech18 Mar 2024 | 13

YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting

Caught on camera: 'Our jobs are ended today, effective immediately'

Offbeat05 Mar 2024 | 46

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus

Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters

Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 92

YouTuber who crashed plane for sponsorship dollars earns 6 months behind bars

There's an idiotic stunt, then there's obstructing a federal investigation

Bootnotes05 Dec 2023 | 34

Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

Search giant says delays not specific to any browser – just those evading advert breaks. YMMV

Personal Tech21 Nov 2023 | 113

Wish you could sing like Charli XCX or possess any musical talent? YouTube AI might make that happen

Fake it (with a neural network) until you make it

AI + ML17 Nov 2023 | 22

YouTubers kindly asked to mark their deepfake vids as Fake Fakey McFake Fakes

Fess up before Google's robo-cops possibly finger your synthetic drivel

AI + ML14 Nov 2023 | 18

Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland

Exclusive Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims

Personal Tech11 Nov 2023 | 44

YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues

Opinion Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness

Personal Tech06 Nov 2023 | 198

Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law

Interview Irish eyes may not be smiling

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 177

India demands social networks 'swiftly' remove all CSAM

X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime

Legal09 Oct 2023 | 15

Google says that YouTube vid can wait if it saves on energy

No you don't need to see Mr Beast as much as that local utility needs to power hospitals

On-Prem06 Oct 2023 | 26

Spotify now using AI to clone podcaster’s voice into Spanish

Meanwhile Google pushes podcast listeners toward YouTube Music

AI + ML27 Sep 2023 | 4

YouTube accused of aiming ads at kids after promising it wouldn't do that

Web giant comes out swinging, says allegations 'without merit'

Personal Tech18 Aug 2023 | 17

Hong Kong High Court declines to force Big Tech to ban protest song

Looks like it's time for the territory to ramp up its SEO offensive again

Personal Tech01 Aug 2023 | 5

Crook who stole $23m+ in YouTube song royalties gets five years behind bars

Claims he wants to stay in the music biz after time in a Sing Sing

Cyber-crime29 Jun 2023 | 28

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

Analysis Web giant also hits back ... right as YouTube steps up war on advert blockers

Personal Tech29 Jun 2023 | 82

YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens

Just a small experiment – for now?

Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 168

Brits start 'em young with 20% of tots 'owning' a smartphone

And what are they doing with them? YouTube, lots of YouTube

Personal Tech17 Apr 2023 | 41

It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary

Column We should know why we see what we see, not be left in the dark

Software13 Apr 2023 | 84

Can YouTube be held liable for pushing terror vids? Asking for a Supreme Court...

Will Section 230 immunity just be revoked? We can answer that

Legal22 Feb 2023 | 59

UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics

Cue the dawning realization for thousands of content creators

Offbeat20 Feb 2023 | 190

Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch

Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes

Offbeat30 Jan 2023 | 22

Scientists conclude cats only have three personalities after YouTube clip binge

Insight could lead to better conflict resolution between our feline overlords

Bootnotes27 Jan 2023 | 90

Facebook approved 75% of ads threatening US election workers

Not a good look for Meta's content moderation team

Personal Tech02 Dec 2022 | 30

YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views

AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 121

Google, YouTube ban election trolls ahead of US midterms

Plus: Truth Social barred from Play until it shows just one iota of decency

Security02 Sep 2022 | 78

AI chatbot trained on posts from web sewer 4chan behaved badly – just like human members

Bot was booted for being bothersome

AI + ML09 Jun 2022 | 30

YouTube terminates account for Hong Kong's presumed next head of government

Google cites US sanctions while Beijing and John Lee Ka-chiu are miffed

Security21 Apr 2022 | 34

PlanetScale offers undo button to reverse schema migration without losing data

Vitess-based database splits system for 30 minutes allowing users to right regrettable changes

Databases24 Mar 2022 | 3

Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments

Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017

Security03 Dec 2021 | 30

YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts

Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto

Security22 Oct 2021 | 28

Google to auto-enroll 150m users, 2m YouTubers with two-factor authentication

Uh, cool?

Security06 Oct 2021 | 81

A global pandemic and ransomware explosion makes for a bumper quarter at Google parent Alphabet

Chief exec Pichai wants to 'help people get the information they need,' even as YouTube fingered for conspiracy guff

Off-Prem28 Jul 2021 | 1

Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam

'It was pretty convincing until the very end,' says host Jim Browning

Security27 Jul 2021 | 82

YouTube acquires Indian social commerce platform Simsim

Short influencer-fronted infomercials may seep into YouTube

Off-Prem21 Jul 2021 |

YouTube's recommendation engine is pretty naff, Mozilla study finds

It even pushes videos that break the site's own content policies

AI + ML08 Jul 2021 | 53

Euro court rules YouTube not automatically liable for users illegally uploading copyright-protected material

It has to take action on takedowns though, prelim ruling on long-running Sarah Brightman spat finds

Legal23 Jun 2021 | 13

In YouTube's world, parental supervision means: 'Everyone sign in to Google, click once, and trust we get it right'

That's what's on offer in new 'supervised' YouTube mode for tweens and teens

Personal Tech26 Feb 2021 | 15

How I found a bug in YouTube that let me watch private videos I wasn't allowed to, says compsci student

Theft-by-a-thousand-cuts flaw fixed

Security12 Jan 2021 | 9

Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable

Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops

Personal Tech07 Jan 2021 | 173

World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet

Updated Gmail and co go TITSUP*

SaaS14 Dec 2020 | 117

Social networks warn Pakistan its new content-blocking laws will hurt economic growth

Good luck with your digital transformation without us on board, says Asia Internet Coalition

Personal Tech11 Dec 2020 | 8

YouTube is going to splash adverts all over your videos, and won't pay creators unless there's a big enough audience

Also bans devs from scraping the site for facial recognition fodder

Personal Tech20 Nov 2020 | 66

YouTube to world: Move along, nothing to see here … because we’re having an outage

Cute animals rendered useless for two hours as streaming site got the wobbles

Personal Tech12 Nov 2020 | 8

GitHub warns devs face ban if they fork DMCA'd YouTube download tool... while hinting how to beat the RIAA

No, no, no, you hit it like this *whack*

Software03 Nov 2020 | 63

RIAA DMCAs GitHub into nuking popular YouTube video download tool, says it's used to slurp music

Updated Did 2020 just loop round to 1999?

Software23 Oct 2020 | 110

First analysts, now YouTubers put you on blast. Do you A) take it on the chin or B) up fire up the DMCA-o-tron?

Video Guess which option this electric truck dreamer chose

Science03 Oct 2020 | 32

YouTube axes crowdsourced captioning: Use our buggy speech-to-subtitle code or pay an approved third party

Gigantic internet radicalization operation calls time on volunteer efforts

Personal Tech30 Sep 2020 | 20

The perils of building a career on YouTube: Guitar teacher's channel nearly deleted after music publisher complains

Vid platform has biased its takedown procedures in favour of copyright owners, says lawyer

Personal Tech29 Sep 2020 | 93

£2.5bn sueball claims Google slurps kids' YouTube browsing habits then sells them on

Video platform is not for under-13s, insists spokesman

Security15 Sep 2020 | 14

Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content

Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 15

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Videos claiming to have magic savior pills racked up millions of views amid allegedly fraudulent investment scheme

Bootnotes27 Mar 2020 | 6

Hypochondriacs – are your eyes all blurry? It's just YouTube trying to cut video-stream quality worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic

You can still watch in HD, but, please, maybe not?

Networks25 Mar 2020 | 17