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YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts
YouTube Is Testing Two Back To Back Skippable Adverts I don’t know whether it’s just my imagination or not, but there seem to be considerably more adverts on and around YouTube these days. While you generally tend to accept these as the ‘price’ you pay for the vast amount of…
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Facebook To Be Sued Over Inaccurate Video Viewing Figures
Facebook To Be Sued Over Inaccurate Video Viewing Figures Since the start of the year, it has certainly felt like Facebook has constantly been spinning more plates than they can handle. As such, it’s hardly a surprise that as more and more start to wobbly, some are already falling off!…
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Facebook Removes 500 Political Pages Ahead Of US Mid-Terms
Facebook Removes 800 Political Pages Ahead Of US Mid-Terms Next month will see the mid-term elections in the US. For those unaware, these are elections that are held half-way through a presidential term. As such, the political climate is starting to heat up again. Following much criticism of their inadvertent…
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YouTube May Shortly Be Removing Skippable Adverts!
YouTube May Shortly Be Removing Skippable Adverts! At the moment on YouTube, you have roughly around a 50/50 mix of adverts you can skip and those that you just have to sit through. It’s an inconvenience, but mostly I suck it up because ultimately the adverts are what are funding…
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Yahoo Mail Plans To Continue Scanning Your E-Mails
Yahoo Mail Plans To Continue Scanning Your E-Mails Ok, so the chances are that many of you probably have a Yahoo mail account. The chances are also equally great that you possibly don’t use it anymore either. In fairness, Yahoo has struggled to keep up with the relevancy of Google…
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Company Announces Plans To Use Fortnite For Job Interview
Company Announces Plans To Use Fortnite For Job Interview When I turned 16 my parents gave me a pretty simple choice. Either get a job or get out of the house. Ok, they were not quite that brutal about it, but they make it pretty clear that further education or…
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Facebook Lifts Crypto Ad Ban Amid Coinbase Takeover Rumours
Facebook Lifts It’s Cryptocurrency Ban Admit Rumours Of Coinbase Takeover Since January, Facebook has instituted a blanket ban on any cryptocurrency or coin exchange on its social media site. At the time, the official line was that the company wanted to avoid potentially being associated with any site that may…
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Advertising Standards Upholds Complaints Against YouTube
Advertising Standards Authority Upholds Several Complaints Made Against YouTube If YouTube has been under scrutiny for anything in the last year, with the exception of continually ruining the lives of its content creators, then it’s the problem of advertising on the video hosting site. Initially, YouTube’s concern was regarding inappropriate…
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YouTube Accused of Data Collection on Children
YouTube accused in US of data collecting on children If we have learned nothing else in the last few weeks with the Facebook data scandal, it’s that while online we are being watched. Whether it be checking our website visiting habits to provide targeted advertising or having to take surveys…
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Blackberry Announce Creation Of A Fan Club
Blackberry Launches Fan Club It’s probably been a very long time since you owned a Blackberry phone, but believe it or not they do have a rather solid fanbase. It would seem that the keyboard integrated phone, despite being the subject of ridicule to many, has a very firm following.…
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Twitter Latest To Consider Cryptocurrency Advert Ban
Twitter Consider Cryptocurrency Ban When it comes to cryptocurrencies, like them or not, the fact is that business and government in recent months have been making moves to steer away from any active involvement in them. We have seen two major examples of this in the last month alone. In…
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Google Announce Bans Of Cryptocurrency Adverts
Google Announces Banning of all cryptocurrency adverts While the love affair between miners and cryptocurrency shows little signs of fading, companies, and governments, however, seem far more keen on distancing themselves from it. While governments have recently been stepping out either outright rejecting cryptocurrencies or requiring some form of monitoring,…
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Google Chrome Launches Their Default Ad-Blocker
Google Chrome Ad Blocker Adverts on the internet can be a tricky subject. Many, be it websites, social media sites or video hosting channels require advert revenue to survive. We at eTeknix are certainly no exception. There is a point, however, when these adverts are downright annoying. In answer to…
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YouTube Hit Logan Paul Channel With Advert Ban
Logan Paul Earlier this year, YouTube content creator Logan Paul hit some controversy over a YouTube video he released. In the video, since deleted, he visited what is known as the ‘suicide forest’ in Japan and having found a recent ‘victim’, decided to film him. Despite a self-imposed exile, he…
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Twitter Reports That They Have Finally Earnt A Profit
Twitter Between Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the three pretty much have the social-media thing sewn up. That is, of course, until the next big thing comes along. Despite that, however, you might have been surprised to hear that since turning public in 2013, Twitter had failed to make a profit.…
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