- YouTube gives users the possibility of deactivating contextual video recommendation windows after years of complaints
- Despite this very requested change, you will have to activate it every time you watch a new video
- The platform also removes the overflight button on channel watermark
One of the most complained features of YouTube is the contextual video recommendation windows that appear at the end of each video, which users find obstructive during the last moments of content – but a fix is finally on the way.
YouTube has announced that he was introducing a new skin button so that users are giving their screens from the contextual superposition windows. It will be located in the upper right corner when an end screen appears, allowing you to complete the video you watch without having recommendations and other links imposed on you. You can also bring them back by pressing the “Show” button.
Although this change will solve a big problem for many users, there is a slight plug. When you press the hide button, it will only delete contextual windows for the video you are watching today, which means you will have to activate it every time you watch a new video. It apparently deploys the whole world now and is already available for certain observers.
YouTube introduced this change after user complaints concerning the distracting nature of the contextual video recommendation windows. However, the reason why it took so long on YouTube could be due to the concern of the company concerning the allocation of creators’ performance numbers.
Before deploying the hide function, YouTube conducted his own experience which has shown that giving users the possibility of masking contextual windows had little effect on engagement, finding a reduction lower by 1.5% of the views of final screen clicks – according to the community announcement of YouTube.
In addition to getting rid of the recommendations and video links on the final screen, YouTube also makes another minor adjustment to its desktop version.
YouTube gets rid of his overflight button
A feature that has never seen much to use is the subscription button that appears when you fly over the watermark of a chain in the lower right corner of a video, and YouTube deletes this function of its desktop version.
YouTube made this decision after finding that less than 0.05% of all channel subscriptions come from the overflight function, and it also rendered its closer office interface.
The company has reassured the creators that they will always have the possibility of adding end screen contextual windows, watermark and other brand to their content if they wish. The main objective of these changes is simply to guarantee that users are not obliged to see things with which they do not want to get involved, which is logical for us.
