YouTube will finally let you hide popups at the end of videos

YouTube has announced two changes to improve the viewing experience for its users. Firstly, the platform will now allow viewers to dismiss the popups and video suggestions that appear at the end of videos with a new "Hide" button. This feature was introduced in response to community feedback, as viewers wanted to focus on the content they were watching without being interrupted by these end-screen elements. Secondly, YouTube is removing the "Subscribe" button that appears when users hover their mouse over a video's watermark on the desktop version of the platform. This feature was deemed redundant, as a dedicated Subscribe button is already available under each video. YouTube claims that these changes will have a minimal impact on the views or subscriptions a channel earns, with the "Hide" button resulting in less than a 1.5% decrease in views from end screens, and the removal of the hover-to-subscribe functionality accounting for less than 0.05% of all channel subscriptions. Overall, these updates aim to enhance the user experience by giving viewers more control over the content they watch, while still allowing creators to utilize features like end screens and watermarks if they choose to do so.