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Over the past few days, there have been an increasing number of reports about supposed YouTube outages. The number of reports rose sharply on fault-tracking platforms ...

There were thousands of reports of YouTube being down earlier today. It turns out that YouTube is working fine. The problem is that the platform rolled out a big anti-ad blocker update. YouTube has ...

Why this is important: This isn’t just a bug, but a spotlight on how major platforms like YouTube are tightening control over reasoned ad-blocking. For users, the shift means the browsing experience ...

Inevitably, whenever there is a discussion on the internet about how YouTube (or any other website) is choked with ads, someone will say, "Just use an ad blocker." The name seems to say it all. An ad ...

Ernest Owens knew we had lost the plot on cancel culture when his younger brother declared he had been “canceled” — by his teacher. Owens, a Philadelphia-based journalist and the author of “The Case ...

Whether you’ve exhausted every game you want to play on the service or are looking at switching to an alternative platform, you may be looking to cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription. There’s a ...

The internet has become absolutely overrun by ads, as they are one of the most direct ways to generate revenue from a wide range of content. This is especially true on YouTube, where just about anyone ...

It was one of the most popular consumer protection rules — and also one of the shortest surviving. The "Click to Cancel" rule was finalized by the Federal Trade Commission to great acclaim on October ...

The FTC's "Click to Cancel" rule, designed to simplify subscription cancellations, has been vacated by a U.S. court. The rule, challenged by business groups, mandated an easy cancellation process ...

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a federal appeals court just days ...