YouTube Will Remove All Video Annotations on Jan. 15 Google discontinued the annotations editor back in May 2017 after their use dropped by over 70 percent. Now annotations are set to disappear ...

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Google quietly announced that it would remove YouTube annotations starting January 15, 2019. Google already discontinued the annotations editor in May 2017. If you have videos on YouTube that use ...

YouTube is finally shutting down annotations for good. Back in March 2017, the Google-owned company announced that it would be retiring them, better described as boxes that suddenly pop up while a ...

Video creators on YouTube have the option to add annotations to their videos in the form of pop-up messages. While the pop-ups can add interesting information, they're very distracting when you're ...