I’ve seen a few videos on TikTok, where people are amazed at the phenomenon of little eclipse shadows casting through trees.
If you’re curious why this happens, Sci Show made a good explainer a few years ago. These shadows are one of the ways to watch an eclipse happen.
The company lost an appeal to overturn a ruling about two commercials for YouTube TV, as reported by Ars Technica. YouTube TV now starts at $72.99 after a price hike earlier this year.
Reading between the lines of YouTube chief Neal Mohan’s comments onstage here at Bloomberg’s Screentime conference in Los Angeles, the streaming giant may have its hands full with NFL Sunday Ticket.
“We’re taking it one step at a time right now,” he said after being asked about the NBA. “The NFL Sunday ticket is a big area of focus for us.”
President Joe Biden is about to announce some new actions to combat junk fees and the White House is streaming the event, as per usual, on YouTube.
When I opened the stream, I got this convenient little pop-up! Interesting placement, YouTube TV.
Reuters reports that X (fka Twitter), YouTube, and Telegram were sent notices by India’s federal Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) requesting prompt and permanent removal of any child sexual abuse material.
“If they do not act swiftly, their safe harbour under section 79 of the IT Act would be withdrawn and consequences under the Indian law will follow,” India’s junior minister for Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, was quoted as saying in the statement.
None of the platforms have been able to entirely block that material, but some may have more trouble with the request than others.
I asked if Google was starting to show the prompt to more people, but spokesperson Christopher Lawton pointed back to a statement from June defining the prompt as a “small experiment globally.”
Personally, I’m wondering if it has something to do with my switch yesterday from Chrome to Safari — perhaps my Safari ad blocker is getting caught by YouTube more easily? But let me know if you’ve started to see the prompt more often as of late, too.
Update October 6th, 1:20PM ET: Thanks for the responses! Many seemed to be from people using non-Chrome browsers, so I asked Lawton about that. He says the experiment is browser agnostic, “meaning we are not targeting any specific browsers.”
9to5Google spotted a change in the Android YouTube app that removes the “Library” tab from the bottom of the app, replacing it with a new “You” tab that takes you to the same place but with some slight differences. I see the same in the iOS app, while my colleague Victoria Song does not.
Other things have shuffled around a bit — YouTube Premium benefits are now in the You tab instead of tucked in the menu that tapping your profile picture in the top right used to show, for instance.
