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YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com)
Early last year, YouTube announced that it would be retiring annotations, those boxes that pop up during a video with links and additional information. It discontinued the annotations editor in May of last year and soon all existing annotations will be going away as well. From a report: The company added an update to the help page announcing the end of its annotations editor, saying, "We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019. All existing annotations will be removed."
If they would stop placing the links to additional videos during the last few seconds of the video I am watching. Is this the popup annotations as described?
Regardless, it is highly annoying to have additional video icons displayed prior to the end of the video I am watching. These "adverts" block some pretty interesting material in many cases.
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At this rate he may not make it to Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Whoever sent you this link is doing you a massive fucking favor.
"Prediction: within 10 years, Windows will be a Linux distribution." Me, 7-6-2016
I thought these annotations were used sort of as a post uploading editing feature. People always correct what they said, provide links to their new video about a topic or whatever. That said I'm happy to see them go.
In the ongoing Google tradition of making shit worse, the cards have always been terrible. They are worse than what they are trying to replace.
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There is a guy who i subscribe to who uses annotations to point to previous videos that he makes reference to (even points to the top of the screen when he makes them) to give you more context on what they are talking about, it's a pity they are retiring it as they are useful. I can understand that they want the platform to the same across any device but if that's the case why do i need to pay for youtube red if i want to minimize the app on my phone? i can minimise the tab in my browser on my computer.
Removing annotations will break the concept of Kaizo Trap and other interactive works that use YouTube as a substitute for the deprecated Adobe Flash Player.
Maybe these annotations can be abused, but in my experience, they usually add helpful notes to a video (e.g. "look at this thing over here!") without needing to be baked in. Kind of like a subtitle track, but more freeform.
This is going to remove a lot of the value-add of watching videos in the actual YouTube viewer (Web page, app, whatever). This was always one of the big arguments against just pulling videos down with youtube-dl and watching them in mplayer/VLC, and they're getting rid of it. I don't understand why they couldn't have just tweaked the way they are implemented to cut down the abuse.
I'm sure they something even more annoying in mind. Wait for it.
WTF are all these people pointing at?
What are these cards they speak of?
I have never came across one that I recall.
The end screen idea was nice, but it really didn't do anything that the annotations didn't.
http://progressquest.com/spoltog.php?name=Son+Of+Son+Of+DarkRookie
These cards often are posted right near the end of a video. I click on the video to pause it and end up hitting one of the links. I doubt that's a coincidence. Should use spacebar instead though.
I had it disabled through YT addon years ago.
I've found it incredibly stupid to have those popup in the middle of a video - what am I supposed to do with those? Click on them, thereby stop watching what I currently want to watch before it's done?!?
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End cards suck hairy sweaty ballz.
Soo many videos have things like "To see the results, click *there* [clickable box pops up]".
Sometimes, those are essential! You cannot remove them, without ruining the video!
And yes, soo many videos will be very confusing, because "Err, I meant ..., of course" annotations will be missing.
Why you'd be happy to see such a useful feature go, is beyond me.
Meanwhile, YT now offers this completely useful (I) button on the top right, where you could add polls, or maybe other things... but nobody knows, since nobody ever clicked those things, in all of the history of the universe forever.
Oh, and stupid text posts.
No, YouTube. Not every site has to add features until it becomes a "social media community" or Facebook.
Fix your insanely shitty suggestion algorithms, instead of being in denial!
They could never cover anything but the video itself. Not link to "subscribe".
And I watch a shitload of YouTube videos, and I have never come across more than the occasional large overlaying rectangle on, and this is key, a very shitty video of a channel that I clicked for the first time, and I and everybody else will never click again.
It was never an issue on any channel that was interested getting any regular viewers or ad money.
you click a shit video, you get shit in the video, in the title, in the description, in the comments, and in the annotations. Why would they be any different?
The issue were the channels themselves. Not the annotations!
But hey, given how often I see people, and even laws going "Some people do something harmful, ... so let's ban ALL people and things belong to any of the vague super-groups that happen to contain those people! ... Juuust like the Nazis did*", ... I'm not surprised.
Detestable.
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* And hereby, I end this discussion.
Mobile also has no ad blockers to prevent ads from being shown.
iPhone doesn't, but Android users can install AdGuard. It blocks ads from all apps, not just from the web browser. I've been using it for years.
These were used primary for * Check out my other videoooooozzz!!!! * LIKE THARE AND THUBTHCRIBE!!!!!!!1111111oneoneoneelevencos(0) Finally it will be nice to see that garbage gone (at least when using a public terminal, since I've had that garbage blocked long, long ago).
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I will really miss John Robertson's "Dark Room", A maze of little youtube clips linked together via annotations.
Mapping out the original 2012 maze was pleasant evenings' diversion. And I learned more about the war between steam and electricity.
truly a salt mine without end
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Somehow, whenever I visit Youtube, I have to go to settings to switch annotations off (no, I don't want to 'log-in'). Why don't they just default to off, instead of scrapping the entire feature?
Can they do something about the videos with the fake robot voiceover that reads wikipedia entries next?
In a world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king--and the two-eyed man is a heretic.
Many annotations were very annoying and spam like. However, back when I made quite a lot of youtube videos, I occasionally added a few annotations based on questions of people in the comments, a bit of extra clarification. That was a good use.
And what crap channels are you watching??
I’d love to see a link to this working in Firefox. On a channel that's not clearly malicious or absolute crap.
I would absolutely take back what I said then. And I promise that I will not use any "no true Scotsman" fallacy, and be fair.