YouTube Updates

[Navjot Singh]

YouTube moved settings to pause watch, search history outside the app

YouTube made a small change at the start of this year that replaced the settings for pausing search and watch history...

9to5google.com

 

[Smh]

ublock on chrome is not working properly for youtube. First it somehow turned off and now when turned on its showing ad on homepage and sidebar.
instream ads/video ads are still blocked.

update: now instream ads and other big banner ad on homepage is also showing.

 

[Sushubh]

New Features and Updates for YouTube Viewers - YouTube Community

Starting today, if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history, features that require watch history to provide video recommendations will be disabled – like your YouTube home feed. This means that starting today, your home feed may look a lot different: you’ll be able to see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu, with no feed of recommended videos thus allowing you to more easily search, browse subscribed channels and explore Topic tabs instead.

 

[Sushubh]

A long term vision for YouTube’s medical misinformation policies

An update on how YouTube is thinking about the future of medical misinformation policies, including removing cancer misinformation.

blog.youtube

 

[Jonas]

How desperate is YouTube to make you enable your watch history?

 

[opomiyulen]

After recent youtube app updates, you can't run youtube without login ur google account. May be ios app still let you watch without a google account. Google wants to know every inch of ur life.

 

[Sushubh]

WSJ News Exclusive | How Frank Sinatra and Yo Gotti Are Influencing the Future of Music on YouTube

Universal Music artists and songwriters plan to explore the future of royalties and content-creation tools in the age of generative AI.

www.wsj.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

YouTube is testing a much smaller 'Skip Ads' button

YouTube is testing out a new design for the "Skip Ads" button which is much smaller but also more modern than the existing look.

9to5google.com

 

[Navjot Singh]

YouTube will waive a creator’s content violation warning — if they attend a class

YouTube will send creators back to class if they violate its policies.

www.theverge.com

 

[Sushubh]

Shorts risks cannibalising core YouTube business, say senior staff

Concerns raised that TikTok rival is drawing audiences away from the platform’s longer-form videos

www.ft.com