Botting on YouTube is the ultimate sin for video creators. Now Google, the site’s owner, has declared itself firmly on their side—but the community remains suspicious. When you see a video’s view or ...

YouTube has been making moves in recent weeks to eliminate music bots from the online service. Not long ago, YouTube forced the Groovy Discord music bot to go off-line. After successfully driving that ...

Discord has become a go-to social media app for online gamers. Credit: SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Discord, the Slack-like chat and streaming app that's become a preferred gathering place for ...

In context: Google has pulled the plug on Discord music bot Groovy Bot. Groovy Bot channels music onto Discord servers from sources including YouTube, Spotify, Soundcloud, and others. It allows ...

Google-owned YouTube is finally cracking down on Discord’s Groovy music bot, which had sourced and played music from the streaming platform on more than 16 million servers for years right under its ...

If you're a Discord user, there's a good chance you've benefitted from Groovy Bot, which lets people jam together with music from YouTube, Spotify and others. But it turns out Google didn't appreciate ...

After news broke two weeks ago that Google-owned YouTube had forced Groovy bot offline, it was widely considered to be only a matter of time before the platform came for the other popular Discord bots ...

YouTube announced a number of new improvements after being called out by big creators regarding spam comments and bots that may bring risks to their subscribers, like fake giveaways and crypto scams.