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 …
YouTube is no longer preventing just a small subset of its userbase from accessing its videos if they have an ad blocker. The platform has gone all out in its fight against the use of add-ons, extensions and programs that prevent it from serving ads to viewers around the world, it confirmed to Engadget. “The …
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A US court ruling has opened the door for teens to sue over social media addiction. A judge ruled that the so-called Section 230 doesn’t protect social media companies. The judge also paved the way for Meta to face legal action. Social media addiction is nothing new, as platforms …
Twitch will now allow its users to stream concurrently on other live video sites. The announcement was made at in Las Vegas, just as it dropped new . The company emphasized that simulcasting is permitted as long as the “Twitch user experience is not compromised” on other platforms. Back in August, Twitch relaxed its rules …
Google rolled out its search generative experience (SGE) in India in August, bringing AI-generated responses and summaries to queries on its popular search engine. Generative AI search promised to provide more effective and engaging results and in-depth overviews. Now, the tech giant is rolling out improvements to its AI search tool in India. Google is …
EU Commissioner Thierry Breton has been sending warning letters to online platforms, reminding them of their duty to address disinformation going around regarding the Israel-Hamas war. Now Breton has written a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, reminding him of the company’s “precise obligations regarding content moderation under the EU Digital Services Act.” Specifically, …
10 June 2021, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bielefeld: A person wearing SoFi glasses to protect him from … [+] the sun’s strong rays is reflected in the display of a smartphone showing the partial solar eclipse. A small part of the sun is covered by the moon during the partial solar eclipse. Photo: Friso Gentsch/dpa (Photo by …
The government is reportedly not happy with the responses of social media companies YouTube, Telegram, X and others on on the issue of curbing pornography, child sexual and adult sexual abuse online. According to a report in Economic Times, the government may ask social media companies to provide detailed information on the steps that they …
Mark Zuckerberg went bullish on the metaverse tech when he rebranded Facebook to Meta in September 2021. Despite incurring back-to-back losses in its metaverse-dedicated unit, Zuckerberg has kept his faith on this branch of emerging technology intact. On September 28, the 39-year-old CEO appeared for a podcast interview with YouTuber and AI researcher Lex Fridman. …
Since the Moon appears smaller than the Sun during an annular solar eclipse, the Sun peeks out from … [+] around the Moon. NASA/Bill Dunford I’m the world’s only “eclipse journalist.” For the very latest on the “ring of fire” solar eclipse—including the latest travel and lodging options—please press the big blue “follow” button above …