8mo ago

YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

YouTube is testing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add "Notes" to provide more context and information on videos.

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So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can't add translations. 🤯
- Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one's horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.

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