YouTube is killing video annotations

[Jamie McKane]

YouTube is killing video annotations

YouTube announced it is dropping video annotations and replacing them with a more mobile-friendly feature.

 

[Thor]

It's been a bad idea anyway. About time.

 

[Hamster]

They should add an option to turn it off by default

 

[backstreetboy]

They should add an option to turn it off by default

... under settings "Show annotations and in-video notifications"...

 

[Hamster]

... under settings "Show annotations and in-video notifications"...

*sniff* thank you

EDIT: I see it is turned off on my cell. Wonder if it is per device because the show up on my laptop.

 

[kianm]

They looked mostly ugly

 

[milomak]

they are an abomination

 

[K3NS31]

but wtf are cards and end screens, and will they also have translations like annotations did for non-English videos?

 

[Kloofvreter]

Good.