• Report: T-Mobile’s T Life App Now Displays Ads

    Earlier this year, T-Mobile shut down its T-Mobile Tuesdays app to consolidate the service in its T Life app. T-Mobile referred to this app as a solution for users to have “access to benefits and more ways to connect with what’s important.” Although its T-Mobile Tuesdays reward program did not go away, it has began offering these in its T Life app.  Unfortunately, some users have reported seeing [read full article]

  • What to Do When YouTube Warns You About Your Ad Blocker

    One of the internet’s simple pleasures is watching YouTube with an ad blocker. You can watch as many videos as you want without constant interruptions from obnoxiously, occasionally unskippable commercials. But ads are how YouTube makes its money, so they’re not too happy when people use ad blockers to get avoid them.

  • YouTube Doubles-down on Ad Blockers once Again

    YouTube (via Google) has again reiterated that it will not condone the use of third-party ad-blockers on the site.

  • YouTube escalates war on ad blockers

    YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues.

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    Draymond Green Addresses His ‘Questionable’ Choices in AT&T Ad

    Both Draymond Green and AT&T know how much the Golden State Warriors defensive standout’s on-court decisions affected his team this season—and they’re not afraid to say it. Since coming to the Warriors from Michigan State in 2012, Green and longtime teammates Steph Curry and Klay Thompson have won four titles together. Green also has become a generation’s defensive template, being named to the NBA’s All-Defensive Team eight times in his career. Unfortunately, like great defensive players...

  • Euclid City Council pulls controversial agenda item

    Euclid’s City Council chambers were filled a little more than usual on April 15. During the regularly scheduled council meeting several residents came up to the podium to speak about a proposed agenda item that would, among other things, limit the time that residents have to speak during city council meetings. In the same ordinance, […]

  • YouTube Is Cracking Down on Third-party Apps That Block Ads

    YouTube is blocking third-party apps with ad blockers from streaming videos. The change follows other crackdowns on ad blockers on YouTube's part.

  • YouTube just got more serious about its ad blocker crackdown

    YouTube is expanding its crackdown of ad-blockers by making blocking certain third-party apps.

  • Google offers a blueprint for brand success with YouTube Shorts Ads

    Google this week launched a comprehensive new guide tailored to YouTube Shorts. The move highlights the burgeoning popularity of YouTube's answer to TikTok, which boasts 2 billion monthly logged-in users and 70 billion daily views.

  • Google is cracking down on third-party apps that block YouTube ads

    In a support document, Google said that users attempting to access YouTube videos through third-party apps with built-in ad-blocking could experience buffering issues or see an error that reads "The following content is not available on this app."Read Entire Article

  • YouTube prevents ad-blocking mobile apps from accessing its videos

    YouTube's war with ad blockers is far from over, and it's focusing on tools that enable ad-free viewing on mobile this time. The Google-owned video platform has announced that it's "strengthening [its] enforcement on third-party apps that violate" its Terms of Service, "specifically ad-blocking apps." It's talking about mobile applications you can use to access videos without being interrupted by advertisements. When you use an application like that, you may experience buffering issues or see an...

  • YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers expands to third-party apps

    Last year, YouTube launched a full-on assault against ad blockers in October, following an initial small scale experiment in June. Now, many months later, the crackdown is expanding. YouTube has announced that it will be commencing enforcement of its anti-ad blocker policy on third-party apps that violate YouTube's Terms of Service. YouTube specifically calls out "ad-blocking apps", on this occasion, although we assume third-party players with ad blocking built-in could also be a target. As...