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YouTube to discontinue video annotations because they never worked on mobile
- StefanKarpinski 10y agoAnnotations are a horrible, annoying feature in the first place. Good riddance.
- npolet 10y agoI've been watching YouTube videos for years and years. I like having something on in the background while working from home, so i have watched a hell of a lot of videos. Never once clicked an annotation. Maybe once or twice by accident, but never on purpose. I was always curious as to whether other people were actually clicking on these, or whether most other people shared my dislike of them. I could always see why they could be a useful thing, like linking somewhere else at some point during the video, but I always went to YouTube to watch videos, not take part in some interactive shenanigans. Of course there are the people that obnoxiously spread annotations over an entire video. it was almost natural instinct for me to click on the little settings icon > annotations > off. There are always going to be people that abuse what they have been giving. I'm glad there is soon going to be one less thing for them to abuse. Silly humans.