If you were interested in knowing how to deactivate YouTube’s “in-place playback”, you may be interested in another tweak that you can give to YouTube to eliminate an element that, personally, I find more annoying than anything else, and that is not easy to synthesize in a headline .
However, surely you know what I mean: you enter, for example, our VOD News, which we have published today with all the news coming to the main video-on-demand platforms, and you start watching a trailer. When you pause it, it emerges a dialogue recommending “more videos” to watchrelated to the one you are viewing or your history on the service.
I understand that as was the case with the feature that I mentioned at the beginning of the article, this one that concerns us is a matter of taste and there may be those who like to have it there. It’s not my case. In fact, I always close it, because can be closed, but not disabled definitely, which is what scares me. Why? Well, because the YouTube gurus have wanted it that way.
Just in case you don’t remember, this is what it looks like:
And by the way, this only happens on YouTube videos embedded in web pages, not when you’re on YouTube itself.
In any case, I don’t like so much “crowding” at all, not to mention that many times I pause a video to watch something in particular and I have to expressly close the window in question… if you don’t click on the video immediately afterwards and If you hit the space or enter key, the little window reappears, because it takes it as the last element you put the focus on… It’s a nuisance.
Overall, what I take it out of the way. Although it is not as easy as going to the YouTube options, because as I said, there is no such option. On the contrary, you have to use an advertising blocker, preferably one that allows you to block visual elements on web pages. It’s as simple as adding the following line to custom filters in, for example, uBlock or similar:
youtube.com##.ytp-scroll-min.ytp-pause-overlay
And, colorín colorado, this story may not have finished, because YouTube applies changes to boleo -this is not the case- and when I don’t like them, I don’t like them. Another recent one was to remove the “I don’t like” counter just because… And I put it back, of course.
