You Can Finally Dismiss End Screens on YouTube, but There’s a Catch

Did you know that you can customize Google to filter the garbage? Take these steps For best search results, especially by adding my work at Lifehacker as a favorite source.

YouTube’s final screens are useful for creators, but often boring for viewers. They allow creators to insert links to other content in the last moments of the video. The problem, however, is that these links appear as big elements on the screen covering the video you watch. Although many videos are mainly finished at this stage, some will always go and you could miss the last five to 20 seconds due to the end screen.

Now YouTube gives you a way to hide these screens, although, with a major warning. The company announced the change on Wednesday, saying that users will now see a “hide” button on the videos containing and finish the screen. The hide button will be in the upper right corner of the reader, which you can click to reject the end screen and start looking at your contents again. If you wish, you can bring the end screen back by clicking on a “Display” button.

Although it looks like a step in the right direction, it is not a parameter that applies to all the videos you watch on YouTube. Instead, this only applies to the individual video in question. As such, you will have to reject the end screen every time you watch a video that has one. It’s a strange decision: you have to wait to hide the end screen when you see it, which means that you only have five to 20 seconds left in your video anyway. You may even want to rewind the video if you haven’t clicked the hide button in time. I would appreciate having the possibility at the beginning of the video at least, but, even more, I would like the option to reject the end screens in all areas. You just have to take a look at the section of the rod comments on this subject to see that I am not alone.

YouTube says it made this decision according to user comments because they heard viewers want to “minimize the distractions on the videos” and “focus on the content they watch”. The company also deletes the subscription button that appears when you fly over the filigree of the video, because there is already a subscription option under the player.