How YouTube Works - Product Features, Responsibility, & Impact

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So our products help you find what you’re looking for and stay in control of what you see. Meanwhile, our policies explain what you can and cannot do while you’re there, so everyone plays by the same rules.</p> <p class="md md-p">Read on to find out how each of our products and policies work.</p> </div> </article> <div class="lb-grid__cell lb-grid__cell--md-span-12 lb-grid__cell--lg-span-7" data-lb-auto-init="ArticlePage"> <p class="md md-p" md-node-state="empty"><figure class="ytr-media"> <div class="ytr-media-grid ytr-media-grid--reverse"> <div class="ytr-media-grid__cell ytr-media__image-wrapper ytr-media-grid__cell--span-12"> <style> .video-play-btn--uaysbx0esku::before { content: 'Inside YouTube'; } </style> <div class="ytr-media__video-wrapper"> <button class="video-play-btn video-play-btn--title-scrim video-play-btn--uaysbx0esku" lb-auto-init="LBButton" lb-options="{'component':'lb-modal', 'action':'open', 'detail':{'uid':'modal-1'}}" video-id="uAYSBx0ESkU" style="background-image: 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href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/search/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> YouTube Search </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/recommendations/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Recommended videos </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/product-features/news-information/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> News and information </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" 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</a> </div> </div> <div class="lb-grid__cell lb-grid__cell--sm-span-12 lb-grid__cell--md-span-6 lb-grid__cell--lg-span-4"> <div class="lb-margin-bottom-xs"> <span class="lb-font-subtitle lb-font--no-crop ytr-accordion__drawer-title"> Rules and policies </span> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/overview/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Policies overview </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/community-guidelines/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Community Guidelines </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/copyright/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Copyright </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/monetization-policies/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Monetization policies </span> </a> </div> <div class="lb-margin-top-s ytr-list-link"> <a class="ytr-section-features-plus__link" href="/web/20231006145423/https://www.youtube.com/howyoutubeworks/policies/legal-removals/"> <span class="lb-font-card-title ytr-section-features-plus__link-text lb-font-weight-600"> Legal removals </span> </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="ytr-section ytr-section-progress-impact lb-margin-bottom-xl lb-margin-top-l" id="our-progress-and-impact"> 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