What is this red line in Youtube videos?
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| Channel: Traveling Nepal |
Have you ever noticed this red line at bottom of your video thumbnail?. It's been about a month that I'm noticing this red strip below the video thumbnails of my youtube channel . And this is noticeable because there is this thin red line in only few videos. So I searched for what was the issue. There was a huge discussion going on in Google Product Forum. But different people had different ideas and nobody were having a common opinion.
Why Red Line?
If you have noticed, after this red line, something has vanished from the video thumbnails. Do you know what is that? Earlier there used to be a already watched notation. And now this is replaced by the red line. So why is this red line? Youtube videos has this red line because those are the videos which you have already watched with same Youtube user account some time before.
In the picture below you see only some fraction of red line in video Zariya. This is because you watched this video to that timestamp and discontinued afterwards.
How to remove this Red Line?
If you donot want to use this feature from youtube you can always opt out from it. In order to do so we have to remove a cookie from youtube. The cookie name is VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE.
- Go to your browser's Settings Menu
- In privacy section find cookies.
- Search for the site 'youtube.com'
- Scroll the cookies and fine the cookie with name VISITON_INFO1_LIVE
- Rremove Selected and close.
- Restart the browser and you are done.
Note: I Tried this in latest version of Firefox browser 51.0
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