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YouTube Cracks Down on Premium Family Plans Used at Different Addresses

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-07 20:30:04

Sharing a YouTube Premium or YouTube Music family plan with people who don't live at your address could soon cost you the perks you're used to. Several users have reported receiving warnings that their accounts will be paused within 15 days if they don't comply with YouTube's rules on family plans. The policy isn't new. YouTube required family plan members to share the same household in 2023 but it looks like enforcement is stepping up. If you lose Premium, you can still stream videos and liste

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This YouTube TV trick saved me $66 on my subscription - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-08 13:45:46

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways A hidden YouTube TV promotion might save you $66. It's only accessible through a web browser, not the mobile app. The promotion saves you $33 a month for two months. If you're a YouTube TV subscriber, you might be able to save $66 thanks to a hidden promotional offer. Late last year, YouTube announced that it was raising its monthly price to $83 a month -- a jump of $10 a month. There

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This YouTube TV discount for existing subscribers is too good to miss

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 07:33:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube TV is getting a temporary $33 discount for existing users. This brings the cost down to $49.99 a month. You only get the discounted price for two months, but a $66 benefit is better than none. If you’ve switched over from a traditional cable TV, you probably know about virtual providers like YouTube TV, DirecTV, or Hulu. However, if you haven’t and want to explore cutting ties with a traditional TV operator, YouTube TV could be one of the more ben

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Sesame Street's new partnership with YouTube will bring 'hundreds of full episodes' to the video platform

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:32:45

Sesame Street creator Sesame Workshop and YouTube have announced a new "extended partnership" that will bring episodes of the iconic children's show to the platform and a series of workshops for creators on "how to create content that is entertaining while also promoting learning." This new YouTube partnership joins an existing Netflix deal to stream new episodes of Sesame Street starting in November. According to YouTube, it'll now have a catalog of "hundreds of full episodes" of the show, on

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The story behind YouTube’s NFL livestream

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-10-10 21:30:00

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. This year, football season kicks off with a twist: Following tonight’s season opener, YouTube will stream the NFL’s first Friday game of the season — a face-off between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs broadcast live from São Paulo, Brazil — for free to a global audience this Friday. It’s the first time YouTube has hosted such a high-caliber US sports event in front of the paywall, and th

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Microsoft made a free YouTube Premium workaround, but I’m keeping my paid sub anyway

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 16:30:43

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A couple of days ago, Microsoft Edge’s latest Canary version added a new and very intriguing feature: video background playback. While the feature seemed cool and innocuous at first glance, we discovered that it could be used to play YouTube videos in the background without paying for a Premium subscription. Better yet, Microsoft Edge also has a built-in ad-blocker that can remove ads while watching YouTube. A plus B equal the two most useful perks from a YouT

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This guy made his own slider phone out of a broken Z Flip 5 and BlackBerry keyboard

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 19:38:17

TL;DR A YouTuber attached a BlackBerry Q10 keyboard to a folded Galaxy Z Flip 5 with a broken folding screen. The YouTuber also added a magnetic slider mechanism akin to phones like the Nokia N97. A video shows that the keyboard works in apps like YouTube and in games. What happens if your Galaxy Z Flip‘s folding screen breaks? Well, you could get it repaired, or you could do what one enterprising person did and attach a BlackBerry keyboard to it. YouTuber and inventor Marcin Plaza decided t

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Disney to pay $10M to settle claims it collected kids’ data on YouTube

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:13:18

Disney will pay $10 million to settle claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it mislabeled videos for children on YouTube, which allowed the collection of kids' personal information without their consent or notification to their parents. This occurred after the entertainment giant failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as "Made for Kids" (MFK), a label that instructs the video streaming platform to block personal data collection and stop serving personalized ads on correctly des

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MrBeast isn’t stopping at snacks — he could take on T-Mobile and Verizon next

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 13:34:53

TL;DR YouTuber MrBeast is reportedly planning to enter the US telecom industry. His telecommunications company is expected to launch in 2026, according to a leak. MrBeast will reportedly use the MVNO strategy instead of setting up a standalone carrier. It hasn’t been long since 27-year-old YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, entered the food industry by launching his chocolate and snack brand, Feastables. The YouTuber is now reportedly looking to expand into the telecommunic

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Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC claim it used cartoons to collect YouTube data on kids

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-10-14 03:01:35

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Disney has agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that it violated federal law by misleadingly labeling cartoons on YouTube so it could illegally collect children’s personal data. The FTC alleges that Disney failed to label some videos of

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Disney will pay $10 million to settle FTC complaint that it collected children's data on YouTube

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 13:36:47

The Federal Trade Commission announced that Disney will pay $10 million to settle allegations that the entertainment giant allowed data collection on YouTube videos meant for children. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, also known as COPPA , companies are required to notify parents and obtain parental consent if they collection information from minors. According to the FTC complaint, Disney failed to properly label some YouTube videos as "Made for Kids," which allowed the compa

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YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 13:25:37

If you're sharing an ad-free YouTube Premium or YouTube Music account with friends or family who live outside of your home, you could lose your premium privileges. Customers who lose these can still watch YouTube or listen to music with ads -- but let's be real, it's not the same. Multiple reports have shown people who have the service have been receiving notices that their premium service will be paused for 15 days due to violating a policy that's been in place since 2023. Don't miss any of o

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YouTube is coming for your shared Premium account, just like Netflix did

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-16 08:47:19

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube seems to be cracking down on Premium Family plan members who don’t live in the same household as the plan manager. Users are reportedly receiving warning emails that their Premium access will be paused if they fail YouTube’s location-based check-in. This mirrors location-based password-sharing crackdowns by Netflix and other major streaming services. If you’ve been freeloading on a YouTube Premium Family plan from outside the “family home,” t

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YouTube just got a brand-new look on Android TV devices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-17 10:40:50

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is rolling out its promised redesigned UI for the YouTube app on Android TVs. New visual changes include centered Pause/Resume controls and separated pill buttons for several interface elements. Back in April, when YouTube turned 20, Google announced a slew of features, including the ability to build your own multiview with non-sports content, 4x playback speed, and more. Google also promised that YouTube for TVs would soon get a “viewing upgra

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Sony is hosting a State of Play showcase for 007 First Light on September 3

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:19:58

Sony has lined up its next PlayStation State of Play showcase, and this one is all about a single game. It will focus on 007 First Light , the long-awaited James Bond adventure from Hitman studio IO Interactive. It starts at 2PM ET on September 3 and you can watch it on the PlayStation YouTube and Twitch channels (there'll also be a version of the video with English subtitles on YouTube ). You can also just hit the play button on the YouTube video above when the time is right. The showcase will

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YouTube TV just got a brand-new look on Android TV devices

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 01:40:50

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is rolling out its promised redesigned UI for the YouTube TV app on Android TVs. New visual changes include centered Pause/Resume controls and separated pill buttons for several interface elements. Back in April, when YouTube turned 20, Google announced a slew of features, including the ability to build your own multiview with non-sports content, 4x playback speed, and more. Google also promised that YouTube TV would soon get a “viewing upgrade

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Microsoft found a way to let you play YouTube in the background on Android, without Premium

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-18 17:57:59

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR Microsoft is testing a new feature on its Edge browser for Android that lets you play videos in the background. The feature can be enabled through the Edge flags page. It works on YouTube, so you can play YouTube videos in the background. Edge Canary for Android also offers a built-in ad blocker that works on YouTube. One of the main benefits of subscribing to the $14 YouTube Premium plan is that it allows you to play videos in the background. But you mig

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Your 2025 NFL Sunday Ticket Packages, Explained

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 05:00:06

Before the NFL season kicks off on Sept. 4, some of us cord-cutters may still need time to sort through sports packages. YouTube's NFL Sunday Ticket is enticing, but not every plan is the same; there are different prices, programming lineups and multiple ways to pay for it. Sunday Ticket is available bundled with a YouTube TV live TV streaming subscription or as a standalone offering purchased as a YouTube Primetime Channel. If you get YouTube TV's base plan so you can watch national and local

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Fox and Google Reach Agreement to Keep Fox Channels on YouTube TV

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-19 20:10:00

Fret not, football fans, Fox channels are staying on YouTube TV. Google and Fox reached an agreement to end their dispute that could have led to the removal of Fox channels from Google-owned YouTube TV. Google announced the deal last night in a YouTube blog post stating, "We're happy to share that we've reached an agreement with Fox to keep their content on YouTube TV, preserve the value of our service for our subscribers and offer more flexibility in the future. This means that Fox channels, i

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YouTube TV subscribers won't lose access to Fox content after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-20 05:00:54

YouTube TV subscribers won't have to worry about missing key college football games and other Fox content after the two sides struck a deal yesterday. "We’re happy to share that we’ve reached an agreement with Fox to keep their content on YouTube TV," the Alphabet-owned company wrote on its blog. Earlier this week, YouTube TV warned subscribers that they could lose access to Fox content including the start of the NFL season and a key college football game between top-ranked Texas and Utah. The

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Send some love to these great Android Authority channels with YouTube hype

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-21 09:03:54

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube’s “hype” feature is now live in 39 countries, including the US. Videos will now have a dedicated hype button that sits under the media player. Users can filter their Home feed with the new hyped category. There are countless creators on YouTube, which can make it difficult for smaller channels to get the kind of attention their videos deserve. Especially when you factor in the giant multi-million subscriber channels that tend to crowd out everyone

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YouTube TV, Fox reach short-term extension to prevent blackout as football season starts

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-23 13:36:30

Arch Manning #16 of the Texas Longhorns scrambles with the ball during the third quarter against the Clemson Tigers in the Playoff First Round Game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Dec. 21, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Google said Wednesday that it reached a short-term extension with Fox to prevent its channels from going dark on its YouTube TV streaming service. However, Google did not specify how long the extension will last. "We have reached a short-term extension with Fox to prevent

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YouTube-Fox standoff has high stakes as college football, NFL seasons kick off

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-23 21:21:54

A news ticker outside Fox News headquarters reads: Grand jury votes to indict former President Donald Trump, at the News Corporation building in New York City, U.S., March 31, 2023. In less than three days, college football will be showcasing one of its most-highly anticipated week one matchups ever, with top-ranked Texas heading on the road to play reigning national champion and third-ranked Ohio State. Fox is airing the much-hyped game. YouTube TV subscribers may be out of luck. Google's Yo

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NFL Sunday Ticket finally offers a month-to-month option

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-26 00:00:37

With the 2025 NFL season only nine days away, YouTube is adding a new way to pay for Sunday Ticket. You can now get the service on a month-to-month basis. Your cost will depend on a few factors. If you're new to Sunday Ticket, you'll pay $85 monthly (up to four payments). For returning subscribers, your fee will vary depending on whether you're subscribed to YouTube TV. If you are, Sunday Ticket will cost $115 per month. If you don't have YouTube TV, you'll pay a whopping monthly fee of $145. T

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YouTube TV Subscribers Could Lose NFL and College Football Without a Deal by Tomorrow Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-26 07:55:00

As an Ohio native and a Buckeye fan since birth, I am filled with nerves and excitement at the start of every college football season. And I'm feeling all the feelings even more so this year with the defending champion Ohio State Buckeyes opening the season against the preseason No. 1 Texas Longhorns and with a quarterback making his first college start. I'll know a lot more about this year's team after Saturday's game -- if I'm able to watch it. Adding to my anxious feelings this week is the o

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YouTube’s ‘Hype’ feature that boosts smaller creators launches globally

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-26 16:33:49

YouTube’s “Hype” feature, which allows fans to help their favorite creators get discovered, is rolling out globally, the company announced Tuesday. First introduced at Google’s Made on YouTube event in 2024, the feature — a dedicated button that appears below the existing “like” button — will become available on videos from creators with fewer than 500,000 subscribers. The feature is now available across 39 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Japan, Korea, Indonesia, and India. Viewers have t

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YouTube TV warns subscribers they may lose Fox channels

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-27 00:15:04

YouTube TV could soon lose access to Fox channels, it announced on its official blog, mere days before the 2025 NFL season begins. It warned users that it's actively negotiating with Fox now that the renewal date for their partnership is approaching, but Fox is allegedly asking for an amount "far higher than what partners with comparable content offerings receive." YouTube TV says it's aiming to reach an agreement that "reflects the value of their content and is fair for both sides" without the

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Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it’s on purpose

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-27 12:07:03

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube has been secretly upscaling Shorts by certain creators without their consent. Creators have not been offered any notification or given any option to disable upscaling. The team has clarified that it is using “traditional machine learning” to denoise and unblur videos. YouTube was founded 20 years ago and has gone through significant changes over this period, especially in video quality. More recently, however, it is experimenting with forced upsca

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YouTube TV could lose Fox channels this week

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-10-27 12:26:22

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. With the start of the NFL season looming, it’s also a window where many TV contracts are up for renewal, and on Monday evening, YouTube TV and Fox sent out alerts indicating that their contract could come to an end as soon as August 27th, at 5PM ET. Google-owned YouTube TV says that “Fox is asking for payments that are far higher than what

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Google says Fox channels to go dark on YouTube TV if agreement isn't reached

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-10-27 16:28:12

Google -owned YouTube on Monday said it may remove channels including Fox Broadcast Network, Fox News and Fox Sports from its TV streaming platform if it doesn't reach an agreement with Fox Corporation. YouTube TV's renewal date with Fox is coming on Wednesday, and while the two companies have been in ongoing negotiations, they've been unable to reach a deal, the YouTube team wrote in a blog post. The company also emailed YouTube TV subscribers about the potential fall out with Fox. "Fox is as

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YouTube Cracks Down on Premium Family Plans Used at Different Addresses

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