- YouTube is giving users the option to disable emerging video recommendations after years of complaints
- Despite this highly requested change, you will have to enable it every time you watch a new video
- The platform is also eliminating the Rover-to Subscription button on the water brands of the channel
One of the characteristics that complained about YouTube, are the emerging video recommendation windows that appear at the end of each video, which users find obstructive during the final moments of a content, but finally a solution is finally on the way.
YouTube has announced that it is presenting a new concealment button so that users eliminate their superimposed emerging windows. It will be located in the upper right corner when a final screen appears, which allows you to finish the video you are watching without having recommendations and other forced links about you. You can also recover them by playing the ‘show’ button.
Although this change will solve a big problem for many users, there is a small trap. When you touch the concealment button, you will only eliminate emerging windows for the video you are currently watching, which means you will have to enable it every time you watch a new video. Apparently it is being implemented worldwide now and is already available for some observers.
YouTube has introduced this change after users’ complaints about the distraction nature of emerging video recommendation. However, the reason why YouTube has taken so long to listen could be due to the company’s concern for affecting creators’ performance numbers.
Before implementing the Hide function, YouTube conducted its own experiment that showed that giving users the option to hide emerging windows had little effect on the commitment, finding a decrease of less than 1.5% in the views from the clicks of the final screen, according to the announcement of the YouTube community.
In addition to getting rid of final screen video recommendations and links, YouTube is also making another adjustment less than its desktop version.
YouTube gets rid of your button to pass the noise from your subscription
A feature that never saw a lot of use is the subscription button that appears when it moves on the water brand of a channel in the lower right corner of a video, and YouTube is eliminating this function of its desktop version.
YouTube has made this decision after discovering that less than 0.05% of all channel subscriptions come from the floating function to subscription, and also made its desktop interface more disorderly.
The company has assured the creators that they will still have the option of adding emerging windows of the final screen, water marks and other brands to their content if they wish. The main objective of these changes is simply making sure that users are not forced to see things with those who do not want to participate particularly, what makes sense for us.
