Back in March 2017, YouTube announced that it would be discontinuing the annotations editor, effectively halting their use for any new videos. YouTube annotations, those annoying translucent boxes that you rush to disable the moment they appear, will finally disappear for good on January 15th, 2019. YouTube today announced that it will be replacing its annotations engine with what it calls End Screen and Cards, which are existing, mobile-first tools that provide many of the same functions as annotations like linking to other videos and polling viewers.
The change takes effect on May 2nd, and existing annotations will continue to show up when using the desktop browser version of YouTube. If you dont want annotations to appear on any YouTube video, you can permanently disable the video annotations on YouTube. YouTube says it made this change primarily because annotations didn’t work on mobile and most viewers found them obnoxious and unhelpful. The demerit of this method is you will no longer.
Once youve done that, click on your profile, located at the top right of your screen. The main cause? Annotations simply didn’t work on mobile.Īnnotations can be used to add text to your videos to let your viewers know about updates and other information about your video, to create interactive YouTube campaigns and to link to other videos, channels, subscription pages and more on the YouTube site. You can permanently hide those annotations by changing your YouTube settings as explained in this guide. To turn off YouTube annotations for good, youll first have to sign in with your Google account. At the time, YouTube said the reason for ending them was due to a 70-percent decrease in usage. YouTube actually announced the end of annotations early in 2017, when the video platform shut down the annotations editor. Turn of annotations permanently If you dont want annotations to appear on any video, you can permanently disable the same. So, annotations on YouTube have gone the way of VHS tapes and rotary phones. Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented: We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. I've unticked the 'Show annotations and in-video notifications' tickbox and am still regularly required to manually disable annotations video by video. With Ublock Origin, these html tweaks persist throughout YouTube. Permanently Disable Annotations Hello, I am attempting to disable annotations permanently and would really love some help if anyone can suggest a fix. Use Ublock Origin to block those thumbnails at the end of the video.
At the time the announcement was made, the reason was that there was a 70% decline in usage. The 'true' way to permanently remove those thumbnails at the end of the video is using Ublock Origin, or any extension that allows you to block certain html on web pages. What happened to YouTube annotations? YouTube announced in 2017 that the platform would no longer support annotations after January 15, 2019.
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