We have Included a Toolbar Button to Turn ON/OFF the Annotations with a Single Click, and at any time. OnInstall Function Added to show Status on Button after Installation.Įrror Fixes: TypeError Null/Undefined Stack Trace (Fixed) All the changes mentioned above are now available in Version 1.1.0 and versions later. We have also accomplished removal of Annotations from Youtube Playlist Videos and when Visiting previous Videos using the the "Go Back" button. It will from now on Automatically Remove all Annotations in Videos with Ads.
And its no longer required to Install AdBlock Plus for Removal of the Startup Ads on Youtube. The new Version supports all Youtube Languages for all Countries. Works on All Players on any Website! Major Update: We are proud to Announce the new Version of Youtube Zero Annotations 1.1.1. Speaking of gaming, interactive games built within YouTube videos using the annotations feature, like Saved by the Bell RPG, Interactive Minecraft, and YouTube Street Fighter, will cease to work as intended.Watch Youtube Videos without the annoying Annotations, Texts and Clickable Links in Videos. The same is true for interactive YouTube game shows like Who Wants to be a YouTubillionaire!?. Alone, without any connection to the first video in the series, these clips will lack any and all context. Those tidbits will disappear next month.Ĭhoose your own adventure clips further along in the chain will no longer be connected to the original video without the annotation-embedded hyperlink.
Expanding on this usage, Mystery Science Theater 3000 uploaded a number of full-length films to YouTube, complete with pop-up video-like facts throughout the movie using annotations. Other than re-uploading a brand new video with the new information, annotations were the only way to add changes to an already existing YouTube upload. One of the more important applications of the annotations feature was as a way to add corrections or updates within a video. What we'll be left with on YouTube is a slew of videos asking you to interact - and providing no way to do so. That will change in January, when YouTube officially shuts them off.īut an alternative online destination for interactive video doesn't really exist. Last year when the creation of new annotations was halted, YouTube left videos that had already implemented them alone. With annotations, you could overlay a hyperlinked box anywhere within a video. For example, you can hyperlink to another video with Cards, but only within a sidebar. These two new features perform many of annotations' functions, but they're a little less customizable. The online video giant has replaced annotations with smartphone-friendly features, such as End Screens and Cards. The main cause? Annotations simply didn’t work on mobile.
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.
The Internet Archive is exploring how it might support this functionality going forward. “The Internet Archive is exploring how it might be able to support this functionality going forward.” “We archive several hundred thousand YouTube videos a week at the Internet Archive,” said Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, in a phone conversation with Mashable. But some internet archivists are looking into what can be done. YouTube created annotations for its own platform, and there’s no other service out there that supports them. As blogger Andy Baio pointed out, reminiscing about some of his favorite interactive videos, there’s really not much that can be done to archive annotations in a workable format.