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."

Comments

Re:I would just be happy

[Anonymous Coward]

nope. that's an advertisement.

the annotations are just that. text notes added by the creator.

this is a very nice feature for 'how to' type videoo that is being discontinued and de-published (as the existing annotations will be lost).

as is the case with everything else google. don't ever count on it.. for anything.

Re:Add missing information

[Sigma 7]

People always correct what they said, provide links to their new video about a topic or whatever.

If only there was a place where they could write some text to provide some errata. Maybe it could be placed below the video, perhaps after the major title, and account that uploaded the video... placing it before the comments...

It would be quite a useful feature if it were implemented. /s

But really, I've seen obnoxious use of annotations outnumber the proper use.

Re:Why not just default to off

[Pezbian]

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?

That's as likely as Facebook defaulting your feed to "Most Recent".