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1. YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers more aggressively, here's how to bypass it

   By Karlston, October 10, 2023   

   • youtube
   • adblockers
   • 3 comments
   • 4,360 views
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   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • October 13, 2023

2. YouTube Is Forcing Some Users to Disable Adblockers

   By aum, May 11, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 1,472 views
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   • Added by aum
   • May 11, 2023

3. YouTube is making a bigger effort to go after third-party apps that block its ads

   By Karlston, April 16, 2024   

   • youtube
   • adblockers
   • 1 comment
   • 1,869 views
   • 
   • Comment by Karlston
   • April 16, 2024

4. YouTube is testing up to 10 unskippable ads before videos

   By Karlston, September 16, 2022   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 1,374 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 16, 2022

5. YouTube just cracked down on ad blockers again — Reports of issues have skyrocketed, and the culprit seems to be your favorite extension

   By Karlston, November 7, 2025   

   • youtube
   • ad blockers
   • 0 comments
   • 447 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 7, 2025

6. YouTube may face billions in fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations

   By Karlston, August 23, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 1,357 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 23, 2023

7. YouTube on TVs reportedly showing ads even when pausing videos to more users

   By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 1,541 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • September 12, 2024

8. YouTube Shorts will soon run ads

   By Karlston, April 27, 2022   

   • youtube shorts
   • ads
   • 0 comments
   • 1,559 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 27, 2022

9. YouTube showing ads with uBlock Origin enabled? Here is a fix!

   By Karlston, September 3, 2023   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 10 comments
   • 6,459 views
   • 
   • Comment by jayballs
   • October 1, 2023

10. YouTube will start warning comment spammers when they violate the rules

    By Karlston, December 14, 2022   

    • youtube
    • spam
    • 1 comment
    • 1,727 views
    • 
    • Comment by Karlston
    • December 14, 2022

11. YouTube's Peak Points AI feature makes sure that you see ads at the most annoying moments

    By Karlston, May 16, 2025   

    • youtube
    • ads
    • 1 comment
    • 1,073 views
    • 
    • Comment by Karlston
    • May 17, 2025

12. YouTube’s latest error message is really an ad-blocker crackdown — blocking playback unless you go Premium or disable the extension

    By Karlston, January 28   

    • youtube
    • ad-blockers
    • 1 comment
    • 294 views
    • 
    • Comment by andy2004
    • January 28

13. YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

    By Karlston, August 1, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 716 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 1, 2025

14. YouTube’s war on ad-blockers just got personal — punishing users by hiding video descriptions and comments

    By Karlston, February 25   

    • youtube
    • ad-blockers
    • 0 comments
    • 337 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 25

15. YouTuber breaks BitLocker encryption in less than a minute using $5 Raspberry Pi Pico

    By Karlston, February 7, 2024   

    • bitlocker
    • cracked
    • 0 comments
    • 1,734 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 7, 2024

16. YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel

    By Karlston, September 4, 2024   

    • yubikeys
    • vulnerability
    • 0 comments
    • 1,951 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 4, 2024

17. Zeppelin ransomware comes back to life with updated versions

    By mood, May 24, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 1,632 views
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    • Added by mood
    • May 24, 2021

18. Zero Trust: You Can Steal Passwords From KeePass With This Free App

    By aum, February 9, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 1,526 views
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    • Added by aum
    • February 9, 2023

19. Zero-day bug in all Windows versions gets free unofficial patch

    By Karlston, November 12, 2021   

    • windows
    • bugfix
    • 0 comments
    • 1,947 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 12, 2021

20. Zoom looks like it's going to use you to train its AI models whether you like it or not

    By Karlston, August 7, 2023   

    • zoom
    • 0 comments
    • 1,481 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 7, 2023

21. Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google

    By Karlston, August 2, 2021   

    • zoom
    • 0 comments
    • 1,361 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 2, 2021

22. Zuckerberg claims WhatsApp is superior to iMessage in privacy and security

    By Karlston, October 17, 2022   

    • whatsapp
    • imessage
    • 0 comments
    • 1,457 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 17, 2022

23. Zyxel warns of critical RCE flaw affecting over a dozen routers

    By Karlston, February 25   

    • zyxel
    • 0 comments
    • 236 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 25

24. Zyxel warns of vulnerabilities in a wide range of its products

    By Karlston, September 5, 2024   

    • zyxel
    • vulnerabilties
    • 0 comments
    • 1,252 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 5, 2024