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I've had annotations switched off for years now, they're almost always completely irrelevant to the content I'm trying to watch, and often just get in the way.
by neotek 8y ago
I've had annotations switched off for years now, they're almost always completely irrelevant to the content I'm trying to watch, and often just get in the way.
- digianarchist 8y agoSame here. Just like ads people abused them so I turned them off.
- have_faith 8y agoDitto. I can't remember a single instance I needed to turn them on for any reason.
- colmvp 8y agoIt's unfortunate, but the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video. It sucks for creators who legitimately used it as corrections for videos but all in all, I think doing away with annotations is a net positive for the user experience.
- neotek 8y ago>the reason why I turned them off is because of a large number of uploaders who abused annotations with stupid annoying messages that added nothing to the video. Same here, 99% of the time it's just a big annotation that covers the whole video that says something like "click here for my latest viral video" or "get [brand name] shoes 50% off" and so on.