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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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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.
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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'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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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.
They could never cover anything but the video itself. Not link to "subscribe".
At least in my browser, the volume controls - all the controls - are inside the video area, and can be covered by annotation rectangles. And they can do "click here to subscribe" links without warning. Dark UX patterns.
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Can they do something about the videos with the fake robot voiceover that reads wikipedia entries next?
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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?
That's as likely as Facebook defaulting your feed to "Most Recent".
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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.
I've had annotations turned off in user settings for years.
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