News & Reviews: YouTube
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Aug 30, 2022
If you regularly watch YouTube and don’t have an ad-blocker turned on, then it’s very likely that you’ve been bombarded with annoying ads by a company called OctaFX offering investment and financial services. Well, as it turns out, OctaFX's aforementioned services and operation were never authorised or approved by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
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Aug 05, 2022
Zoom in on YouTube videos will soon not be a complicated process anymore. The platform has introduced a feature called 'Pinch to zoom' for its Premium users, which allows you to zoom into the videos and pan around to look at different parts of them, both in portrait or full-screen landscape view.
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Jul 31, 2022
Many people love to watch videos online, and short-form video is probably the most popular format these days. Besides the highly popular TikTok, YouTube Shorts has also gained a substantial userbase of about 1.5 billion users. As such, it makes sense to add a new feature to help make Shorts.
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Jul 13, 2022
By now, most of you know about the bizarre LoFi Girl livestream video incident. For the uninitiated, the 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to' has been taken down due to a copyright strike by a local music production company - FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. YouTube has rectified the issue and the LoFi Girl's video is now back online.
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Jul 12, 2022
Finally, the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode for YouTube will soon be available for all iOS users across the globe. Since April, we had already heard the news about the feature making its way to global iOS users, but it never happened until now.
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Jul 12, 2022
One of the most popular and iconic music streams on YouTube, Lofi Girl’s lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to suddenly disappeared from the platform since two days ago due to a copyright strike from Malaysian-based music company, FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia. Understandably, the incident caused uproar among fans of the stream, which up until today has over 668 million views.
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Jun 22, 2022
If for whatever reason you think that smartphone screens nowadays are too big to watch content on, then this new app for the Apple Watch is the very thing you’ve been waiting for. Called WatchTube, this watchOS app allows you to watch YouTube videos on the Apple Watch and it works surprisingly well for a third-party app.
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May 19, 2022
YouTube announced a few new features to its app and web version today including Most replayed, Video Chapters on Smart TVs and gaming consoles, Single Loop and quick action buttons while in full screen mode. Besides that, a new experimental feature will also come out soon, whereby YouTube will help to skip to the exact moment in a video that users want to watch.
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May 05, 2022
The popular YouTube Go app will be discontinued in August 2022 as the Google-owned company no longer sees its necessity anymore. Launched in 2016, YouTube Go is a lightweight version of the YouTube app designed for places with poor data infrastructure or expensive connectivity.
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May 02, 2022
Are you tired of seeing some categories of ads on YouTube? If you are, Google has rolled out a new option for you to disable ads that belong to certain categories, including alcohol, dating, gambling, pregnancy and parenting, and weight loss.
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