If you’re wondering how to ban YouTube on the site, you may be interested in another tweak you can provide YouTube to remove an element that I find personally more annoying than anything else, and it’s not easy to synthesize in the headline.

But you know what I mean: you enter ours, for example VOD newsthat we released today with all the news coming to the major video-on-demand platforms, and you start watching the trailer. When you pause it, it will appear a dialog recommending “more videos” to watchrelated to who you are viewing or to your service history.

I understand that, as was the case with the function I mentioned at the beginning of the article, this one, which concerns us, is a matter of taste and there may be those who like it there. This is not my case. Actually, I’ll always close it because can be closed but not deactivated for sure, which scares me. Why? Well, because YouTube gurus wanted it that way.

In case you don’t remember, it looks like this:

And by the way, this only happens with YouTube videos embedded on websites, not when you’re on YouTube itself.

In any case, I don’t like so much “stuffiness” at all, not to mention that I pause a video many times to watch something specific and I have to explicitly close the window in question … if I don’t click on the video right after and If you press a space or the Enter key , the small window reappears because it takes it as the last element you focus on … It’s poison.

Overall, what I’m taking it out of the way. Although it’s not as easy as switching to YouTube options, because as I said, there is no such option. Instead, you need to use an ad blocker, preferably one that allows you to block visual elements on the website. It’s as simple as adding the following line to custom filters, such as uBlock or similar:

youtube.com ##. ytp-scroll-min.ytp-pause-overlay

And, colorín colorado, this story may not end because YouTube applies the changes to boleo – it’s not – and when I don’t like them, I don’t like them. Another recent one was the removal of the “I don’t like” counter just because … And of course I returned it.