Google-owned YouTube is testing a new feature that allows mobile viewers to create Shorts featuring comments from the videos they are watching. This feature gives viewers the opportunity to create content from comments, and the Shorts will appear in the Shorts feed and on the viewers’ channel page. The creators will not receive notifications and cannot prevent their comments from being featured unless comments on their videos are disabled. This experiment is currently available to a small percentage of viewers on Android and iOS devices worldwide.
In addition, YouTube is testing other features such as the ability to long press anywhere on the player to automatically increase the playback speed to 2x, providing bigger previews to users while seeking, and a lock screen feature to disable touch input while watching a video. Last month, the platform also announced a three-strikes policy for users using ad blockers, as ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.
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