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Do you remember those little text boxes that used to pop-up all the time on top of YouTube videos? Google calls them annotations and they are set to disappear completely from YouTube videos on Jan. 15 ...

YouTube annotations are those little text boxes that pop up when you’re watching a video. They’re pretty distracting. And while we’ve all become familiar with clicking that tiny cog turn them off, ...

YouTube Will Remove All Video Annotations on Jan. 15 Google discontinued the annotations editor back in May 2017 after their use dropped by over 70 percent. Now annotations are set to disappear ...