Now that YouTube has launched the new buttons to share and insert videos that we showed you a few days ago, the company has decided to test a new function on a small number of users. As you can see in the image above, YouTube is testing a new feature called Autoplay what will reproduce suggested videos when we finish watching the video that we are playing.
Obviously we can deactivate this function, since there will be people who may find it annoying. Users, in addition, will know perfectly that at the end of the video another one will begin to play, since a Popup it will slide to the right of the screen at all times to remind us.
How to activate the YouTube experiment
To activate this experiment, the first thing you have to do is go to YouTube and open the Javascript Console of the browser you are using:
- Google Chrome: Tools, JavaScript Console.
- Mozilla Firefox: Web Developer, Web Console.
- Internet Explorer: Development Tools, Console.
Once the web has loaded, copy and paste the following code:
document.cookie = "VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE = j1l-QY6DlXg; path = /; domain = .youtube.com"; window.location.reload ();
When the page has loaded, and if you have done everything right, you will see the experiment of YouTube. If not, you can try this other method. First access YouTube from Chrome. Then install the extension Edit This Cookie. Once installed, right-click on YouTube, select the option Modify Cookies. Look for a cookie called VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE and modify its value by this:
j1l-QY6DlXg
Hit Save changes and reload YouTube to see the test. If it disappears after a short time, repeat these same steps and, before clicking Save changes, select the Protect from changes option. This will prevent the cookie value from being modified.
Source: All Google Testing
