Some time ago, YouTube introduced a feature called "Cards" to allow supplemental links to be added into an expandable panel on the side of a video. This was their replacement for the ill-fated Annotations feature that got overused to the point where almost every YouTube viewer disabled them. I've happily used Cards to link to related or suggested videos that are either referenced in the content you're watching or likely to be of interest to you once you're done & ready to move on.I don't recall when, but YouTube eventually started sneaking in "Sponsored Cards" that usually point viewers to vendor sites where they can buy the item featured in the video. Sponsored Cards only ever show when the video owner has not used any regular Cards of their own. I was okay with some of this at first, as it was very, very contextual, but the algorithms have gotten pretty...




