How to Block YouTube Ads on Your Android TV
The experience of watching YouTube videos somehow keeps getting worse, and if you watch them on your smart TV, get ready to begin seeing a lot of unskippable 30-second ads…
Understand YouTube’s New ‘1080p Premium’ Before You Subscribe for It
If you don’t watch YouTube enough, YouTube Premium isn’t worth the monthly $11.99. But for avid watchers, Premium means no ads, and now a new feature called “1080p Premium.” So…
This App Turns the World Into a Wikipedia Scavenger Hunt
Screenshot: Jake Peterson You might think your know your hometown pretty well, but I’m willing to bet there’s a lot you don’t know—something noteworthy that happened in a spot you…
How to Avoid Copyright Strikes on Private and Unlisted YouTube Videos
Photo: Proxima Studio (Shutterstock) We commonly think of YouTube as a platform for sharing videos with large public audiences, but it can also be a great way to back up…
YouTube Is Rolling Out New Features
Photo: Kaspars Grinvalds (Shutterstock) It’s hard to believe, but YouTube just celebrated its 17th birthday. To commemorate the website’s ability to see R-rated movies, YouTube is rolling out a suite…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What’s in the Johnny Depp Documents?
Photo: BAKOUNINE (Shutterstock) This week’s Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide features a grab-bag of unrelated nonsense from the world of young people culture, including an info-dump of salacious material in the seemingly…
Why Almost All of Your Instagram Videos Are Becoming Reels
Photo: Dean Drobot (Shutterstock) If you haven’t noticed, Instagram is pushing Reels—its in-app TikTok clone—very hard. Since Reels rolled out in 2020, the Meta-owned picture-sharing app has been all but…
The Least-Awful Social Media Sites for Anyone Who Wants to Be Less Unhappy
Photo: Chernousov family (Shutterstock) Almost everyone agrees that large swaths of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Reddit are terrible, each in their own way. But these monolithic social media platforms…
How to See Who Has Looked at Your TikToks
Photo: XanderSt (Shutterstock) As long as social media has existed, there have been people asking, “Can you see who looked at your profile?” For the most part, the answer has…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is ‘The Ick’?
This week’s exploration of the underbelly of young people culture takes us to surreal and terrifying imaginary spaces and invites us to have a heart-to-heart talk with a cartoon dog…