Youtube shutting off annotations - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MrMobodies
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 10:55:14 pm
content: Just watching a Frant video from Franlab and they are shutting off annotations.https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/11/27/youtube-is-shutting-off-those-annoying-pop-up-annotations-for-good-on-january-15/QuoteWhy couldn't they just turn them off by default and we turn them on when we want or make a profile setting.There is an option for it in the player.There are lot of things that annoy me about the Youtube player like that Gradient shadow element things that I adblock when I want to seek/pause a video to look at something in the background where the picture is darkened.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 27, 2018, 11:52:51 pm
content: It's rather annoying they completely remove annotations on existing videos. I've got a few videos floating around which are literally annotated this way. They don't make any sense without the annotations explaining what you're seeing.You can't really update existing videos, so I'll be forced to remove them.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 12:33:45 am
content: Record display while playing video on youtube, re-upload video with the annotation now making part of the video, maybe.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 01:25:54 am
content: I agree making them optional and off by default would be better. The same goes for "Autoplay". Turn it off please.Some annotations were useful, but the ones that appear in the upper right, urging me to click and watch something different, when I'm already in the middle of one I wanted to watch... Well, those are worse than useless.

author: Mr. Scram
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 02:42:24 am
content: Quote from: senso on November 28, 2018, 12:33:45 amI'd still lose comments and likes. Time to bury those works I'm afraid.

author: Wan Huang Luo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 04:24:36 am
content: I like the video links that EEVBlog puts in at the end of videos in a rectilinear box, but i definitely won’t miss the annoying “CLICK HERE!” stuff that unscrupulous you tubers put into their vids to try to monetize unmonetizable content otherwise.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 04:47:27 am
content: Quote from: Wan Huang Luo on November 28, 2018, 04:24:36 amThey are called Endscreens, and when they introduced them you had to choose between either Endsscreens or annotations, you can't have both. I gave up annotations at that points as Youtube said they would phase then out a couple of years back.

author: John B
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 05:14:02 am
content: Hey, do you guys remember that change made to Youtube that actually made sense and improved the Youtube experience?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 28, 2018, 09:08:04 pm
content: Quote from: John B on November 28, 2018, 05:14:02 am*snort*I do like the new real-time stats.

author: LapTop006
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 29, 2018, 09:15:17 am
content: Quote from: John B on November 28, 2018, 05:14:02 amThe new UI is a net improvement.

author: senso
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2018, 10:20:19 am
content: Still no collections or any way to organize subscribed channels besides the great sidebar...

author: IanJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 29, 2018, 11:53:03 am
content: Annotations are dead.....long live annotations.I found annotations extremely useful......however, you can cheat by using cards if I remember correctly......just use the text to send the message you want to and ignore the fact they are clickable, just point any url's to the same video you are editing. At least I think that's what I did on one video a while back...………...or something like that.Ian.

author: Drewbie
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: November 29, 2018, 11:36:05 pm
content: Quote from: John B on November 28, 2018, 05:14:02 amI see what you did there.They should make them optional and any accounts that abuse their usefulness are no longer allowed to use them.