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YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the good-riddance dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I would just be happy by The+Original+CDR · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Annotations work great on the desktop. Not so much on mobile. And mobile is where most videos are being watched these days. Mobile also has no ad blockers to prevent ads from being shown..

  2. Good-bye Kaizo Trap by tepples · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  3. Good fucking riddance! by Sebby · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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