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• YouTube’s greedy new ad policy will hurt vulnerable creators the most

  Thanks to a new change, YouTube will now roll ads on small channels. The bad news? These creators won't get a single slice ...

  • Mix

• YouTube wants to steal Spotify's lunch with new audio ads

  It seems YouTube wants a slice of Spotify's metaphorical pie: the company has announced it's introducing audio-only ads on ...

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• GitHub restores popular YouTube downloader three weeks after its takedown

  Finally some good news in this hellish year. GitHub has restored popular video downloader tool, YouTube-dl, after the company banned it in October. The code hosting platform said that new information about the tool indicated that it didn't violate technical protection measures put ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• It's official: YouTube has canceled Rewind 2020

  For the first time in 10 year, YouTube has decided to cancel its annual edition of Rewind — the series celebrating the ...

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• GitHub took down popular YouTube downloader — so devs made more copies

  Last week, GitHub took down the popular YouTube video downloader tool "YouTube-dl" after the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), the organization that represents record labels, issued a DCMA takedown notice. As a result, the code hosting site took down multiple ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• YouTube's mobile app gets several small tweaks to enhance the viewing experience

  YouTube today announced a series of updates meant to make its mobile app more useful, including a streamlined player experience and new gestures. A few months ago, YouTube introduced the ability to easily create video chapters by simply typing some timestamps in your video's description. ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Facebook and YouTube take action against QAnon — but they’re fighting a losing battle

  Recent decisions by Facebook and YouTube to crack down on the far-right conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon will disrupt the ability of dangerous online communities to spread their radical messages, but it won’t stop them completely. The announcement by Facebook on Oct. ...

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• Report: Google is going to turn YouTube into a shopping hub

  YouTube is testing a feature that would allow users to directly purchase products they see in videos, according to a report by Bloomberg. It could be one of the biggest changes to Google's streaming platform yet, turning it into a bit of an Amazon competitor. According to the report, ...

  • Napier Lopez

• YouTube's new AI will block videos that are inappropriate for kids

  YouTube will start using AI to automatically add age restrictions to videos "over the coming months," the company announced ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Mozilla needs your help to expose YouTube's recommendation algorithm

  A new browser add-on called RegretsReporter invites users to report dubious YouTube recommendations so Mozilla can investigate ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• YouTube officially launches its own TikTok competitor, Shorts

  TikTok is really the popular kid in social media these days, as evidenced by the massive American tech companies fighting over who gets to buy a cut of it. Others, like Instagram, have instead try to copy the format, and now YouTube has joined the fray. YouTube today officially ...

  • Napier Lopez

• How to make collaborative playlists on Spotify and YouTube Music

  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, ...

  • Rachel Kaser