YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15

Early last year, YouTube announced that it would be retiring annotations, those boxes that pop up during a video with links and additional information. It discontinued the annotations editor in May of last year and soon all existing annotations will be going away as well. From a report: The company added an update to the help page announcing the end of its annotations editor, saying, 'We will stop showing existing annotations to viewers starting January 15, 2019. All existing annotations will be removed.'

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