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Netflix Launches Top 10 Daily Rankings of Most Popular Titles by Country

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Starting Monday (Feb. 24), Netflix said, it is rolling out a new row in its interface that will show the overall top 10 titles in a subscriber’s country, as well as the top 10 most popular series and films (when users select “TV shows” or “movies” tabs, respectively), updated daily. – Todd Spangler, Variety » https://ift.tt/37UYbeD

Finally! Netflix will now let you turn off the autoplay feature you hate

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According to the Netflix help page linked to in that tweet above, here’s what you need to do. First, sign in to Netflix from a web browser. Select “Manage Profiles,” and then choose the profile you want to update (assuming there are multiple profiles on your account, like for multiple family members in a household). Then, simply uncheck the option to “Autoplay previews while browsing on all devices,” and voila — you’re done. – Andy Meek, BGR » http://bgr.co/0tANNON

YouTube’s Old Desktop Interface Will Be Disabled in March

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Yesterday, a new Google support page appeared detailing how the older version of the YouTube desktop interface is being discontinued. We don’t have a specific date, but the old interface is set to disappear in March, meaning if you are still using next month you’ll load up YouTube one day to find a very different experience. – Matthew Humphries, PCMag » https://ift.tt/2tyen7D

Peacock Sets July Launch Date: NBCUniversal Streaming Service Will Offer Free Tier, Ad-Free Subscriptions

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It was also revealed that the service will offer a free, ad-supported tier, as well as options for ad-free service. Peacock Free and Peacock Premium (the latter of which costs $4.99 a month for non-bundled Comcast and Cox subscribers) both will come with ads, but premium customers can upgrade to an ad-free experience for an additional $5 per month. (Any customer can also purchase the ad-free experience directly for $9.99 per month.) – Ryan Schwartz, TVLine » https://ift.tt/2FYzySY

YouTube gives creators more control over copyright claim disputes with new update

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The new update now lets creators address copyright disputes directly from their digital back-end workspace and gives them the option to trim out the claimed content in question. The “Assisted Trim” option is the biggest feature rolling out with the new Studio update, with the “endpoints of the edit pre-set to where the claimed content appears in the video,” according to a Google product blog. – Julia Alexander, The Verge » https://ift.tt/2SpEjw2

The Pirate Bay Moves to a Brand New Onion Domain

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Last evening the operator of a site that indexes links to some of these proxies told TorrentFreak that their owners had noticed that The Pirate Bay’s Onion site had been down for several hours, which is unusual. After further investigation, it was discovered that the site had switched from the extremely messy (redacted) to piratebayztemzmv.onion. – Andy, TorrentFreak » https://ift.tt/2RsXYuD

Comcast plots 2020 meeting to provide details on Peacock streaming service

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NBC is planning to offer Peacock for free to its Comcast and Sky pay TV subscribers along with a subscription tier for consumers that don’t subscribe to Comcast’s pay TV services. But recent reports from CNBC (which is owned by Comcast) suggest that the company will make the service free for everyone to use. – Ben Munson, FierceVideo » https://ift.tt/38gEfEC

Disney Plus now has a Resume button

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Disney Plus has added a “resume” button to the streaming service. As of Friday, the button will appear when when you navigate to a series you’re watching, and clicking it will bring you back to the episode you were in the middle of. Prior to the addition, users would have to scroll through the episodes until they found the one they’d gotten up to. – Corinne Reichert, CNET » https://cnet.co/37x6VbM

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