If you ever felt that YouTube should find some solutions to remove those distracting recommendation pop-ups lingering for a few last seconds over a video, there’s finally some good news for you. In a Community Post from earlier today, YouTube has confirmed that you can now hide those end screen video recommendations.
You can now hide and choose to see end-screen video recommendations on YouTube
To hide those distracting pop-ups, you will be able to select a new “hide” button whenever you come across an end screen. You can find that button at the top right corner. The video streaming platform has said that the change comes as a response to user feedback. While recommendations is a part of YouTube, it was taking a toll on user experience. Assuming that billions around the globe watch videos on YouTube, this change was quite important.
Well, there’s one caveat, too. The “hide” option only applies to a video that you’re watching. In other words, you have to keep choosing the option again and again. If you’re fine with seeing YouTube’s end screen video recommendations again, you can choose the “show” option again. This will add those annoying pop-ups back to the tail-end of the video. We spotted this “hide” button in the YouTube app on one of our Android smartphones.
As per the creators’ POV, the addition of a remove option might hamper views on YouTube videos from the end screen. But that’s very minimal, according to YouTube. In tests, the hide button only resulted in a drop of views from end screens by 1.5 percent.
YouTube on desktop sees an additional change
Besides hiding end-screen video recommendations, YouTube is making a change to the desktop version. The platform is also removing the “subscribe” button, which usually appears while hovering your mouse over the channel watermark. YouTube says that this change will “simplify and improve the viewing experience.”
Speaking of updates, YouTube Shorts recently got Google’s Veo 3 integration. The company says creators can generate an eight-second video with sound using simple text prompts. This feature is currently rolling out in select regions, with expansion planned for later.
