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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. I would just be happy by OYAHHH · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    1. Re:I would just be happy by lgw · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The were abused badly. Hidden rectangles that covered e.g. the volume control tht linked to "subscribe", for example. This is why we can't have nice things.

      Which sucks, because YouTube has no good way to edit a video once posted (much like Slashdot), so annotations were the one way you could correct a stupid mistake after the fact, by popping up a correction as you said the stupid thing.

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  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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