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Huh didn’t realize YouTube annotations was killed off. Gotta say, most annoying thing to me was discontinuing support for the Nexus 6p after only 2 years. Made

Huh didn’t realize YouTube annotations was killed off. Gotta say, most annoying thing to me was discontinuing support for the Nexus 6p after only 2 years. Made me switch to iPhone for ever.

bonzini 8y ago
YouTube annotations unfortunately were misused for spamming purposes. It is one of the few cases where you can say good riddance.
- herohamp 8y ago
  If you found them annoying you could always disable them, I was rather fond of them, people did lots of cool stuff with them. Like choose you're own adventure videos, and 3kliksphilips CSGO skin showcase videos. I think they should have kept them. They kept bitching about them not working on mobile but that's only because they chose not to support mobile
- mcbits 8y ago
  Annotations were also used to correct errors in educational videos after the videos were published. The errors are still there, but the corrections are gone. They replaced annotations with "cards" which are 100% spam.
- alxlaz 8y ago
  E-mail is also often misused for spamming purposes, and Gmail -- which is easy to sign up for and trusted by mail servers worldwide -- is often used for scams. Should we expect it to be terminated as well? Any solution that allows you to write stuff on the Interwebs can be misused for spam. The solution that every company is expected to come up with, of course, is a good anti-spam mechanism. Youtube annotations were a solution offered for free. It probably didn't make any sense for Google to implement a good (and expensive) anti-spam mechanism for it. But let's call it for what it is -- a cost-cutting measure made at the expense of users, most of whom are non-paying. There's no point in bringing up technical matters, there aren't any.
MrGilbert 8y ago
Most annoying part is that they also disabled the annotations for old videos. So, watching an old video where it says "click here or there for this and that", without linking it in the description gets kind of annoying.
0x54D5 8y ago
The Nexus 6P has an excellent custom ROM maintained by the community based on Android 9. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-pixelexperience-t3869744 https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-pi... It's an almost stock experience and my Nexus 6P is still going strong after a battery replacement. iOS is a non-starter for me. I refuse to buy any device that does not allow me to install whatever I want or run any code I want without paying for said privilege. Recent developments lead me to believe that both iOS and Android are actively harmful to our future. I hope that open source operating systems for phones become robust enough in the next 20 years so that we can look back at this time as the dark ages of mobile computing.
blotter_paper 8y ago
An archive is available, thanks to crazy people on the internet: https://i.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/b7imx9/youtube_annotation_archive_annotation_data_from/ https://i.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/b7imx9/youtube_a...
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Internet Archive link: https://archive.org/details/youtubeannotations https://archive.org/details/youtubeannotations

Huh didn’t realize YouTube annotations was killed off. Gotta say, most annoying thing to me was discontinuing support for the Nexus 6p after only 2 years. Made me switch to iPhone for ever.

bonzini 8y ago

YouTube annotations unfortunately were misused for spamming purposes. It is one of the few cases where you can say good riddance.

herohamp 8y ago
If you found them annoying you could always disable them, I was rather fond of them, people did lots of cool stuff with them. Like choose you're own adventure videos, and 3kliksphilips CSGO skin showcase videos. I think they should have kept them. They kept bitching about them not working on mobile but that's only because they chose not to support mobile
mcbits 8y ago
Annotations were also used to correct errors in educational videos after the videos were published. The errors are still there, but the corrections are gone. They replaced annotations with "cards" which are 100% spam.
alxlaz 8y ago
E-mail is also often misused for spamming purposes, and Gmail -- which is easy to sign up for and trusted by mail servers worldwide -- is often used for scams. Should we expect it to be terminated as well? Any solution that allows you to write stuff on the Interwebs can be misused for spam. The solution that every company is expected to come up with, of course, is a good anti-spam mechanism. Youtube annotations were a solution offered for free. It probably didn't make any sense for Google to implement a good (and expensive) anti-spam mechanism for it. But let's call it for what it is -- a cost-cutting measure made at the expense of users, most of whom are non-paying. There's no point in bringing up technical matters, there aren't any.

MrGilbert 8y ago

Most annoying part is that they also disabled the annotations for old videos. So, watching an old video where it says "click here or there for this and that", without linking it in the description gets kind of annoying.

0x54D5 8y ago

The Nexus 6P has an excellent custom ROM maintained by the community based on Android 9. https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-pixelexperience-t3869744 https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6p/development/rom-pi... It's an almost stock experience and my Nexus 6P is still going strong after a battery replacement. iOS is a non-starter for me. I refuse to buy any device that does not allow me to install whatever I want or run any code I want without paying for said privilege. Recent developments lead me to believe that both iOS and Android are actively harmful to our future. I hope that open source operating systems for phones become robust enough in the next 20 years so that we can look back at this time as the dark ages of mobile computing.

blotter_paper 8y ago

An archive is available, thanks to crazy people on the internet: https://i.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/b7imx9/youtube_annotation_archive_annotation_data_from/ https://i.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/b7imx9/youtube_a...

toomuchtodo 8y ago
Internet Archive link: https://archive.org/details/youtubeannotations https://archive.org/details/youtubeannotations