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Google has denied it altered YouTube code to break  Microsoft Edge , thus slowing down its performance while users streamed YouTube videos -- a claim made by a former Microsoft intern. Microsoft Edge is a graphical web browser included in  Windows 10 , Windows 10 Mobile and Xbox One devices, replacing Internet Explorer as the default web browser. According to a  report  in The Verge on Wednesday, Google disputed the claims made by Joshua Bakita, a former software engineering intern at Microsoft, who said that the company added a “hidden empty div over YouTube videos” that slowed down streaming on Microsoft Edge. According to Google, it merely fixed a bug in YouTube. “YouTube does not add code designed to defeat optimizations in other browsers, and works quickly to fix bugs when theya¿re discovered,” a YouTube spokesperson was quoted as saying. Microsoft, however, was yet to comment on the specific claim made by its former intern. “Google has been a hel...

Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours of   YouTube   on TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. “Our overall interactions, such as likes, comments   and   chats, grew by more than 60   percent   year over year. More and more creators are building their businesses and discovering that they can shape the global conversation with just a phone and an Internet connection,”   Wojcicki said in a mid-year update over the weekend. “We made a conscious effort to respond on social media, and we answered 600 percent more tweets through our official handles (@TeamYouTube, @YTCreators and @YouTube) in 2018 than in 2017 and grew our reach by 30 percent, ” Wojcicki informed. YouTube has built a new feature that enables it to deliver relevant information in YouTube Studio (formerly known as Creator Studio).   “In February, we began testing a new dash...

It appears that if you run a company and see a positive review of one of your products or services on YouTube, you can pay some dollars for it to use the video as an ad, even though the video was published independently. Well, at least that was the case with popular tech reviewer and YouTube personality, Marques Brownlee or MKBHD and his OnePlus 6 review video. Brownlee recently posted OnePlus 6 video review, where he praised the device calling it  ‘A+ for the price’  and a smartphone that offers a  ‘killer balance of performance and features.’  OnePlus seemingly loved the review, paid to run it as an ad, which didn’t go down too well with Brownlee and many others. View image on Twitter Marques Brownlee ✔ @MKBHD So it looks like somebody (I’m guessing OnePlus) has paid for my OnePlus 6 review (and others) to run as an ad, inflating the view count massively. So now it sits as my most viewed video ever… Pretty smart on their part I guess,...