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Will Viacom know what I watch?

American copyright bully Viacom wants to know what videos I watch on YouTube.

From an issue that arrose on YouTube last year it is clear Viacom is hypocritical.

Come on Google, fight.   Their source code is secure but surely this information about its millions of users is extremely valuable for marketing purposes…

YouTube playlist

I found a nice tool to visualise YouTube playlists and make them embeddable within a webpage. Here is my YouTube playlist - normally I start about half the way through skipping several songs as I go.

There are some irritants with the YouTube playlist feature - the first being that occasionally copyright holders request that YouTube removes a video - breaking the playlist - and second that their is no ’shuffle’ or ‘random play’ (sounds like Facebook :P) feature.