YouTube giveth, and YouTube taketh away. The Google service has announced that it is getting rid of annotations, the obnoxious boxes that popup over a video to provide a link to a different video or ...

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In a small update to a YouTube support page last month, the online video giant announced that annotations would be deleted from all videos using the feature early next year. Image: Youtube / ...

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Google has announced that annotations will be removed from all content on its video platform, YouTube. The switch-off will take place in January 2019, 11 years since they initially launched. Google ...

YouTube is replacing its annoying video annotations with a new "cards" system that looks a bit classier albeit more obstructive. Here's what you can expect to see on both desktops and mobile devices ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Google quietly announced that it would remove YouTube annotations starting January 15, 2019. Google already discontinued the annotations editor in May 2017. If you have videos on YouTube that use ...