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Category: Entertainment

Google about to roll out YouTube Lite plan in select regions

Posted on February 21, 2025February 21, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

YouTube users who do not want to see ads have three main options until now: subscribe to YouTube Premium, use a content blocker, or a third-party app that does away with ads as well. Most YouTube users would probably agree that there are too many ads on the site. This hurts the viewing experience and…

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Block Breaker Google Search

You can now play Block Breaker on Google

Posted on February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Google loves to add little easter eggs to its products. It is not uncommon for the company to add games to its search engine. When you run searches for Pac Man, Snake, or Minesweeper, you may get the chance to play that game directly on Google Search. The latest addition to Google Searches’ growing list…

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Like Clockwork, Netflix is rising prices again

Posted on January 22, 2025January 22, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Years ago, I predicted that streaming companies would raise subscription prices regularly, maybe even yearly. Today, news broke that Netflix is raising the price of subscriptions again. The details: Here is the new price structure in the United States: This is the first price increase since October 2023, when Netflix increase the price of Premium…

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YouTube Premium Lite Check

Here is how you find out if you can subscribe to YouTube Premium Lite

Posted on January 19, 2025January 19, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

YouTube Premium, Google’s subscription-based plan for its video streaming service YouTube, is either quite expensive or a great deal, depending on who you ask. If you are just after getting rid of ads on YouTube, it is quite expensive in the eyes of many. One reason is that Google added YouTube Music to the subscription….

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VLC Media Player: 6 billion downloads and counting

Posted on January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 by Martin Brinkmann

Computer users have plenty of options when it comes to using a media player. All operating systems include one by default, but some users prefer to download a third-party app. These may offer better functionality, privacy, or other features. VLC is a household name when it comes to media players. The cross-platform open source tool…

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Cassettes

The video downloader Cobalt just got a whole lot better

Posted on November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

While streaming seems to gain more popularity by the day, some users prefer to download content at times or always. This offers several benefits, such as: There are plenty of services available on the Internet that let you download videos to the local system. You may also use standalone programs, Internet Download Manager is my…

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Amazon Prime Video Recaps

Amazon uses AI to improve TV show recaps on Prime Video

Posted on November 5, 2024November 5, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

I dislike recaps. Not as much as precaps, which give you a summary of what you are about to see, but still. Whenever they come up, I immediately activate the skip button to get past them. Amazon is now experimenting with AI to improve recaps for viewers on Amazon Prime Video. The feature, which has…

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Opera

People love Netflix with ads

Posted on October 18, 2024October 18, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Netflix’s reported strong earnings, revenue, and an increase in subscribers for the third-quarter of this fiscal year. One of the most important takeaways is that people seem to love the ad-powered Netflix plan. Netflix says that more than 50 percent of all subscribers in the third-quarter selected the Standard with ads plan. Compared to last…

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Steam digital product

Steam makes it clearer that you are buying licenses, not games

Posted on October 12, 2024October 12, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

When you buy a game on Steam or any other digital marketplace, you acquire a license and not the actual game. This has been the case ever since shops for digital games came up. The same is true for other digital content. You do not buy a movie, TV show, or music album, you purchase…

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In an effort to push ads, Google is now hiding the skip button on YouTube for some

Posted on October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann

Reports suggest that Google is testing a new option to increase eyes on ads and the playtime of ads on YouTube. The latest test targets the skip button in the mobile app and on the YouTube website. Good to know. Skip allows you to end several ad formats prematurely, usually after five seconds of playtime….

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