YouTube will now let you hide those pesky end screens

YouTube volition finally fto you dismiss the pop-ups that capable your surface with recommendations astatine the extremity of a video. Now, erstwhile you travel crossed an extremity screen, you tin prime a caller “hide” fastener successful the top-right country of the video truthful you tin decorativeness what you’re watching without distractions.

YouTube says it’s making the alteration successful effect to feedback that viewers privation to beryllium capable to “focus connected the contented they’re watching.” I’ve agelong looked for ways to fell these screens, arsenic they sometimes screen the process extremity of the video I’m trying to ticker and marque it hard to spot what’s happening.

YouTube notes that erstwhile you prime the “hide” button, it lone applies to the video you’re watching — not each of them connected the platform. You tin besides bring backmost the extremity surface by selecting the “show” button. YouTube recovered that this didn’t person a important interaction connected a creator’s presumption number portion investigating the feature, arsenic it says the “hide” fastener resulted successful conscionable a 1.5 percent alteration successful views from extremity screens.

In summation to this change, YouTube is removing the “subscribe” fastener that appears erstwhile you hover your rodent implicit a channel’s watermark connected desktop. Doing this volition “simplify and amended the viewing experience,” according to YouTube, arsenic the level already displays a subscribe fastener straight beneath videos. Neither of these updates volition impact however creators marque videos, arsenic they tin proceed to adhd extremity screens and watermarks.