Google’s new privacy policy means that your YouTube history can be stored and used by all other Google products. If you’d rather keep your search and viewing history private, you can do so from YouTube’s settings. Here’s how.
When you’re signed into Google or YouTube, a record of all the videos you searched for and watch is logged in your account. You can clear those logs, but up until now you couldn’t disable the logging altogether. Here, finally, is how to keep YouTube from recording your video searches and the videos you watch.
Kids these days watch a lot of YouTube videos and if you’re worried about your child watching something inappropriate you can use the Gube app instead of handing them unrestricted access to YouTube. Gube curates thousands of educational and fun videos for your child in your choice of four age categories.
If you’re an avid YouTube watcher who switches across tabs a lot, you might finding pausing a video or adjusting volume a little difficult. Video Controller is an extension for Chrome that places a simple control panel on your toolbar to quickly pause or adjust volume regardless of which tab the video is in.
If you’ve ever wanted YouTube to look more like a TV guide, Nowbox is a new app for iPad that pulls your channel subscriptions and lays them out in the same way as an electronic guide.
If you’ve ever wanted to share the best parts of a YouTube video and not the whole thing, Snipreel allows you take small snippets of a video and share your own highlight reel.
Chrome, Firefox and Safari: Related videos! They’re useful but can often have misleading thumbnails or text, designed to get you to click when you have no actual interest in the video content. It’d be nice to see the ratio of likes to dislikes on the video before you go in, right? Now you can.
Technology blog GHacks reports that YouTube is testing a new homepage design and that anyone can force this new design by adding a cookie to their browser. Here’s how to do to so for Chrome and Firefox.
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Chrome: Google has released two official Google+ extensions: one for Chrome allowing you to quickly share links and get notifications while browsing, and one offering YouTube integration for your Google+ profile.
