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Popular video streaming giant YouTube recently introduced its fresh crackdown on ad blockers. Soon after implementing this policy, the company is now allowing users to play games on YouTube with 'Playables'. This enhancement offers a range of playable games within the video app's interface with no extra cost for Premium accounts.

According to Droid Life, the feature is available for smartphone and desktop users for entertainment without requiring users to download a separate game. The feature debuted for Premium users this week. These accounts can switch on the feature if they wish to try it out.

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Within the 'Playables' tab, two tabs - 'Home' and 'Browse' are available for the user. The Home page displays games a user has played and the popular games on the app. The Browse tab gets a wide range of 35+ games, which you can play without downloading an additional package from YouTube.

YouTube Playables is currently live on Android, iOS and Desktop web for Premium accounts. (Image:Unsplash)

Angry Birds Showdown, Daily Solitaire, 8 Ball Billiards Classic, and The Daily Crossword are among a few games, as per the report. According to YouTube, this experiment is live until March 28, 2024. Users can find the section while scrolling on the Home page or via the Playables link in the Explore section. It is currently live on Android, iOS and Desktop web.

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Users can enable the feature from the Settings. On a related note, the company is testing topic summarisations in comments using AI. This can help users to organise and summarise large comment sections in videos. Available until December 5, it is currently undergoing testing on Android and iOS.

Users can open the comments box and sort user comments in the Topics tab. It is available for videos in the English language. You can read more on this and other AI experiments on YouTube here.