YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email(arstechnica.com)

211 points by isaacfrond 1 year ago | 85 comments

Jef Raskin's cul-de-sac and the quest for the humane computer(arstechnica.com)

40 points by pinewurst 1 year ago | 9 comments

Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity(arstechnica.com)

110 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 100 comments

Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy(arstechnica.com)

449 points by PaulHoule 3 years ago | 193 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that a judge voided film studios' subpoena seeking the identities of Reddit users who commented about piracy.

Sam Altman wants a refund for his $50k Tesla Roadster deposit(arstechnica.com)

15 points by oldnetguy 11 months ago | 0 comments

NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices(arstechnica.com)

24 points by Lihh27 5 months ago | 18 comments

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k(brutecat.com)

1548 points by brutecat 1 year ago | 439 comments

A security researcher's write-up of a vulnerability chain that exposed the email address of any YouTube channel owner, earning a $10,000 Google bug bounty.

YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin(andadinosaur.com)

581 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 596 comments

Blog post by Zhenyi Tan documenting what he knows about YouTube's escalating anti-adblock measures and how uBlock Origin responds to them.

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)

418 points by mrjaeger 7 months ago | 201 comments

New York Times article on a verdict finding Meta and YouTube negligent in a landmark social media addiction trial; the page loaded a captcha instead.

YouTube-DL Hosting Ban Paves the Way to Privatized Censorship(torrentfreak.com)

414 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 162 comments

TorrentFreak article on a German court ruling holding host Uberspace liable for hosting the youtube-dl website, with the owner warning of privatized censorship.