Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A user on Reddit spotted (and recorded) a YouTube porn ad in their mobile feed. The ad appears to be for a pet-focused social network but is overlayed with extremely NSFW content. Google has removed the ad in question and taken action against the account associated with it. Update: …
Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube will soon require creators to disclose if their video has AI-generated content. Creators who consistently fail to disclose AI-generated content will be penalized with content removal and demonetization. Users will soon see “altered or synthetic content” labels on videos with AI-generated content. Love it or hate it, YouTube …
YouTube is cracking down on the use of ad blocking software by increasingly forcing users of the incredibly popular video website to allow ads to run or pay for its YouTube Premium service. Until recently, ad blocking tech had worked on the Google-owned YouTube, but now warning messages are appearing and stopping videos from playing …
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing new generative AI tools in YouTube. In a small test, AI will be used to summarize the broad topic of the comments section of certain videos. In another test, an AI chatbot will be able to answer questions about the video being watched without interrupting playback. …
Generative AI has crept up in a lot of Google’s apps and services. The latest to get generative AI capabilities is YouTube, the popular video sharing platform. In a blog post, the company detailed how generative AI will make the YouTube user experience better. Get a comment summary in YouTube Google has said that it …
The internet’s “enshittification,” as veteran journalist and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow describes it, began decades before TikTok made the scene. Elder millennials remember the good old days of Napster — followed by the much worse old days of Napster being sued into oblivion along with Grokster and the rest of the P2P sharing ecosystem, until we …
Samsung Gaming Hub has debuted for all 2022 Samsung Smart TVs and monitors to let users quickly access Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia, Utomik, and the Xbox app. The new offering, which was announced at CES 2022 in January, works as an all-in-one game streaming discovery platform to let gamers access multiple cloud services from …
YouTube confirmed in the last week that it has expanded the crackdown on ad blockers globally. This will result in people using ad blockers on the platform seeing a notice saying that they must remove ad blockers to play video. A report said that this prompted people to uninstall ad blockers in record numbers, but …
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s crackdown on ad blockers is causing users to uninstall the software in record numbers. However, an even higher number of users are instead turning to better ad blockers that won’t trigger YouTube’s warning. Some users are even going as far as to switch to a new browser. YouTube …
YouTube’s is hurting the companies who make them. Multiple ad blocking companies say that thousands of people are uninstalling their products after YouTube started showing warnings to people trying to watch videos on its website with ad blockers enabled. One of the companies, AdGuard, told that more than 11,000 people have uninstalled its Chrome extension …