YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
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Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#2Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#3Considering the crap ratio in these obnoxious end-of-video links and the fact that external links in the video description (e.g. to point to additional information) are still allowed, I don't think this is a bad thing.
I'd probably prefer it if the same rules applied to anyone though.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#4Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
> I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
It could be different now, but the last time I tried to answer this the answer was that preference is stored in a cookie and not globally. I have my browser set to dump cookies when it closes so I kept losing that setting.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#5Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
Do you have an adblocker? It makes it very easy to block anotations and all other kinds of annoying crap.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#6Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
I've never been able to get the disable annotations option to stick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and it's been that way for years. Very annoying.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#7Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
I've never been able to get the disable annotations option to stick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and it's been that way for years. Very annoying.
I don't think it's persistent if you don't log in. There is an account-level setting (not a video-level setting) which I the gp is talking about.
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#8An important note here, if you cannot enable monetize videos, YouTube will not allow you to link to patreon or other sites.
https://i.imgur.com/byCxnAj.jpg
Its not enough for Google to ban you from ads, they have decided to cut off any other funding source aswell...
Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#9An important note here, if you cannot enable monetize videos, YouTube will not allow you to link to patreon or other sites. https://i.imgur.com/byCxnAj.jpg Its not enough for Google to ban you from ads, they have decided to cut off any other funding source aswell...
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Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos
#10Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.
It seems like a better approach would be to just get rid of those annotations. I don't know how anyone ever thought that was a good idea.
But YT should let them link externally. Site's like Patreon are beneficial to everyone involved.