Should you watch YouTube typically, whether or not on cell or desktop, you might need seen a change to the Skip button that customers press after they can halt an advert and transfer on to the content material that they chose to view. On cell, the same old countdown to the Skip button has gone lacking on each iOS and Android. So as a substitute of the countdown timer, you see the complete advert till the Skip button pops up. On the desktop, some report seeing darkish rectangles the place the timer would usually be discovered.

The countdown timer main into the Skip button is now lacking on cell and desktop YouTube. | Picture credit-PhoneArena

The YouTube spokesperson mentioned that the Skip button is not going away even when the seconds main as much as its look have modified. Falodun famous that YouTube is “decreasing parts on the advertisements participant” in order that “viewers can have interaction extra deeply with the advert by a cleaner expertise.” As an alternative of a rectangle overlaying a small a part of the advert (which, to be honest, may very well be distracting), a progress bar on the underside of the display screen might substitute the countdown timer on each desktop and cell.

On  the desktop, the countdown timer was changed by darkish rectangles. | Picture credit-Reddit

The priority that some have is that eradicating the countdown timer is a precursor to a future determination by Google to take away the Skip button altogether which might drive YouTube customers to attend for an advert to utterly end earlier than they might watch the video they chose to view.