San Francisco, Aug 11: In order to reduce spam and scam attempts, Google-owned YouTube has announced that links in Shorts comments and Shorts descriptions will be non-clickable starting August 31.

"Starting on August 31st, 2023, links in Shorts comments, Shorts descriptions, and links in the vertical live feed will no longer be clickable-- this change will roll out gradually," the platform said on a support page on Thursday. Amazon Declares It Has Digitised over 62 Lakh MSMEs, Created over 13 Lakh Jobs in India till Date.

"Because abuse tactics evolve quickly, we have to take preventative measures to make it harder for scammers and spammers to mislead or scam users via links." It also mentioned that clickable social media icons from all desktop channel banners will now no longer show.

As links are an important way for creators to share information and recommend products/brands to their communities, YouTube announced new ways to showcase important links. Apple’s iPhone 15 Series Launch Event Now Reported to Take Place on September 12; Check New Details Inside.

"Beginning August 23rd, 2023, viewers on mobile and desktop will start seeing prominent clickable links on creators’ channel profiles near the ‘Subscribe’ button."

The video-sharing platform further mentioned that by the end of next month, it will start introducing a safer way for creators to direct viewers from Shorts to their other YouTube content.

On Tuesday, the Google-owned platform had started testing the new 'For You' section which will make the channel homepage more personalised to individual viewers and also recommend a mix of different content types from that channel based on the videos they've already watched.

(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on Aug 11, 2023 12:35 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website latestly.com).