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The crackdown is coming. Search Engine Land spotted the latest test, which tells users to unblock ads or they’ll be blocked from watching any videos. A previous test showed a warning saying people could watch three videos before being blocked.

It’s likely that your YouTube home page has become pretty crowded with so many recommendations, ads, and other elements that you can hardly find anything. Well, now there’s a solution. If you’re willing to pause your current watch history and delete your past history, you might eventually end up with a nice, clean, even bare YouTube home page. Here’s how.

Copyright law can’t seem to keep up with how fast YouTube and streaming trends evolve, so creators have long taken it upon themselves to set up industry norms for “react”-style videos.

Following in the footsteps of previous Pokémon games like Sword and Shield, and Arceus, a new digital-first, animated series inspired by Scarlet and Violet is in the works.

Anita Sarkeesian has announced she’s ending her groundbreaking, pop culture criticism series after 15 years. “I’m ending Feminist Frequency because I’m extremely burnt out,” she said. After years of thoughtful critique of the way pop culture media treats women, and after the relentless and violent backlash she received for that, yeah, a break is long overdue. Read the full interview with Polygon below.

The feature for watching up to four feeds at once has been in testing, and now it’s officially available well ahead of this fall’s NFL Sunday Ticket streams for WNBA League Pass subscribers.

The Wimbledon final between Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic was an epic battle that cemented Alcaraz’s place as world number one. You can now watch the five-set match free on YouTube, where you can see Alcaraz secure his first Wimbledon title against seven-time champion Djokovic.

And I’ll be keeping an eye on this newer YouTube channel, Works By Design, after a video showcasing an attempt at a more efficient bike, using CAD, a 3D object-scanning app, and pricey industrial tools. Perfect!

I have a vehicle-obsessed toddler, and just when I thought I couldn’t handle another viewing of Cocomelon’s Wheels on the Bus we stumbled across Twenty Trucks.

Podcasts started showing up for YouTube Music users in the US back in April, with YouTube promising more countries to follow. Now that process has begun.

After lingering too long in arm wrestling YouTube, so now the site’s algorithm now thinks it’s all I care about. As an unironic fan of Over the Top, a sweaty Sylvester Stallone film about a truck driver who joins an arm-wrestling tournament to win the love of his son, I’m not sure it’s wrong.

The findings from Adalytics published last month suggested that Google broke its own rules on video ads by placing ads in small, muted video players on sites and letting them play on repeat.

Last week, Will Cogley published a video showing how he fused a vintage TV with animatronics and Alexa to create something infinitely more charming than Amazon’s Astro.

Last year, he did a daily vlog series and fundraiser where he started with a penny and had 30 days to travel coast-to-coast across the US (and eventually deliver a giant penny to MrBeast). He’s doing the series again this month, but this time, he has seven days to get from Paris back to the US.

Bloomberg reports Spotify “has already begun talking to partners about the product” adding full-length music videos to its app. After Spotify’s podcast plan went awry, it appears the company could try to take a bite out of YouTube (which also deeply integrates videos into its YouTube Music service) and TikTok.

In a new two-hour interview, MrBeast talked about how he can use his line of Feastables snacks to support his outrageous YouTube videos. (The snacks are featured prominently in his latest video about increasingly-expensive yachts, which also includes cameos from Pete Davidson and Tom Brady.)

YouTube creator MrBeast claimed in a tweet today that he was invited to join the Titan trip that disappeared on June 18th and was later determined to have imploded.

That’s according to a report from The Information on the value for Google of YouTube as an AI training dataset. The fact that OpenAI scraped YouTube isn’t surprising, but the company is famously secretive about its training data, partly for competition reasons, and partly, it’s thought, to stymie potential lawsuits.

Clark’s video on YouTube has a nice, simple overview of the phenomenon and shows how to take advantage of them on a guitar. His explanation starts at the minute mark.

That’s right, the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is free on YouTube ahead of the June 15th season two premiere — TrekMovie has links to all the episodes.