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YouTube Is Forcing Some Users to Disable Adblockers
YouTube is prompting some users to switch off their browsers’ ad blockers. If they refuse, they can’t watch the videos.
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Musk Says Twitter Will Purge Inactive Accounts
It’s time to say goodbye to inactive Twitter accounts, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday, in yet another apparent attempt to bring users back to the platform. The number of active Twitter accounts has been steadily decreasing since Musk took over the platform and made a number of unpopular changes including changing…
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Gmail Gets Its Own Blue Checks for Verified Emails
Companies like Meta have been on a blue check mark kick lately, despite how the verified icons have become a mark of shame rather than a status symbol on Twitter, the site which originally popularised the idea. Now Google is also getting in on the blue check hype with its own verified branded email system,…
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Whoops! YouTube Shares Profits With Climate Liars Two Years After It Promised to Stop
People like to tell lies about climate change on YouTube. That’s bad enough, but worse is the fact that Google makes money by running ads for major brands against those videos, sometimes sharing profits with creators. In 2021, Google took a stand and promised to stop doing that. But two years later, according to a…