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We can all turn a blind eye to it, but it is a fact that tonnes of inappropriate content exist on YouTube, which is right now, the world’s largest video sharing website. YouTuber Matt Watson has highlighted a concerning issue of how a couple of extra clicks could lead users into a “wormhole” of “soft-core […]
YouTube is well aware of the rampant misuse of dislike button on the platform and its recent Rewind video is a good example. To address this issue of ‘dislike mobs,’ YouTube’s product development team is experimenting with different ways to curb the misuse of the dislike button. Dislike mobs are basically a group of people who are […]
Fake accounts, posers, and pretenders have been a constant issue online. Online services became indirect victims, especially if the posers act on a certain way that damages the reputation of the online service or hurt someone in real life due to their posts. The latest scandal on Youtube, for example, involves Youtube popular content creators […]
During this attack were compromised thousands of devices such as Chromecast and Google Home, in addition to smart TVs Two hackers claim to have hijacked thousands of intelligent devices, such as the streaming device Chromecast, Google Home smart speakers, even smart TVs, exposed on the Internet to play a video in which the victims of […]
The official website of the Wall Street Journal was hacked earlier today after unknown hackers defaced it with messages in support of PewDiePie (Felix Kjellberg), the most widely followed YouTuber. The hackers left a deface page along with a message on the domain (partners.wsj.com) that WSJ uses to publish content paid for by advertisers. The deface […]
Thousands of devices unexpectedly printed a message supporting PewDiePie Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists reported that during the most recent months a “Youtube war” has been waged pursuing the recognition of the channel with the most subscribers between the Swedish YouTuber Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg, and the firm T-Series, channel dedicated to Bollywood cinema. This is […]
YouTube now finally decides to remove its annotations feature, after having discontinued the annotations editor earlier. It was in May 2017 that Google discontinued the YouTube annotations editor, after finding that the use of annotations has dropped by over 70 percent. Now, the Google-owned YouTube, which gets over 1.9 billion users every month, has decided […]
Incognito mode or private mode is mostly a thing on web browsers that lets people hide their internet history. Mostly it’s hidden from their spouses and bosses peaking on the computer screen, not ISPs and maybe companies like Google. The main idea behind private browsing or incognito mode is to avoid recording a user’s web history and delete […]
Apart from all the AI-packed announcements at Google I/O 2018, the company also said they have worked out a feature that’ll help people reduce their use of Android devices and Google service. As a part of Google’s digital well-being efforts, the first change has arrived in the form of a YouTube update. So let’s take […]
YouTube make it very clear that it didn’t suffer a hack, Vevo did. People began noticing early this morning that music videos from some of the most popular artists in the world, (including Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito,” the most-watched video on YouTube) on Vevo were taken down. The videos were replaced with messages from hackers, and […]
In the aftermath of the shooting at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, the company has increased the security at all of its offices across the world. This is intended to “make them more secure in the long-term,” YouTube says. The move reflects a growing concern in Silicon Valley that the effects of increasingly toxic […]
There is another malware aiming at Windows devices. This time, the malware is spread from YouTube. The information security training researchers at Russian anti-virus vendor Dr. Web have discovered a dangerous malware campaign being spread by cybercriminals from YouTube. Labeled as Trojan.PWS.Stealer.23012 by the researchers, the malware is written in Python programming language and aims at targeting […]
After YouTube desktop, its mobile apps are the latest in line to join the dark side. The YouTube iOS app is finally getting a new dark theme. So, iPhone users running latest version of the YouTube app can turn on the new feature with a few simple taps. The dark mode for Android is expected […]
It doesn’t matter what device people use, YouTube has become the default streaming service for most of them. And it doesn’t involve any cost, unless, one decides to go for YouTube Red subscription. Despite all the features and great cat videos YouTube offers, there is one thing that has been a pain in the ass […]
Short Bytes: The YouTube apps for iOS and Android now include a new ‘Shared’ tab. It allows you to share YouTube videos with people and chat with them without leaving the app. The feature, which YouTube is testing since a year, eliminates the need of copying the video link and sharing it through some other […]
“DaddyOFive,” is a verified YouTube channel with 763,595 subscribers who apparently have been using their kids to make online prank videos. In one of the videos, a 9-year-old boy starts crying when his father says another family will adopt him; Couple claims that videos were ‘staged.’ Mike and Heather Martin are from Maryland, United States […]
Short Bytes: Now activating Dark Mode in YouTube is even simpler. As it’s rolled out officially on an opt-in basis, you can activate the Dark Theme and Material Design with a single click. This move is in line with Google’s move to push a cleaner look across all platforms. In its recent Creators Update, Microsoft […]
If you are wondering what’s happening with YouTube then you are not alone, the video-sharing website is suffering an outage currently and users are unable to access the website. Those visiting the site can see a 500 error along with a message, “500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained […]
The technical nature of cyber crime can sometimes obscure the fact that creating, using, and distributing malware, phishing kits and other threats is a business, albeit an illegitimate one. Like most other businesses, cybercriminals look for ways to market and distribute their tools effectively while staying under the radar of law enforcement and the security […]
In this tutorial we are going to see how to download YouTube videos on your iPhone or iPad. YouTube has introduced offline video option, but its not available for most of the videos. Where YouTube Red, an ad-free subscription service that’s available only in US can use offline videos. Note: This app is tested in […]
Short Bytes: More than hundreds of hours of content is uploaded to YouTube every minute. Created by three PayPal employees, it is the biggest video sharing platform in the world at the current point in time. Let us know about some amazing YouTube facts. YouTube was created by three PayPal employees Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, […]