IOP Correspondent
New Delhi, June 21, 2019: In order to tackle the spread of hateful and racist comments on its platform, Google-owned YouTube is experimenting with hiding comments on videos by default and the test has gone live in India.
The new feature, being experimented on Android for now, hides the comments that are displayed below the video unless a viewer taps the "Comments" button.
"We are testing a few different options on how to display comments on the watch page. This is one of many small experiments we run all the time on YouTube and we'll consider rolling features out more broadly based on feedback on these experiments," a YouTube spokesperson told a source on Friday.
Even though the test feature is on by default currently, creators have the choice of turning the featureoff which would traditionally display comments under their videos like the usual format.