No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0]
[0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...
In some cases such things were applied quite heavily too.
And thus the point of my previous post is that for people doing serious work with their youtube videos providing corrections and such via the description is entirely untenable.
I'm sorry you've only seen spam, but cutting off another's tool because some people can't use it correctly is a severe case of FYGM.
I don't think they should take it away completely, just limit it so avoid the aforementioned 'myspace page' overuse.
So there are hacky half-working workarounds, but otherwise youtube just told everyone who cares about their videos to go and kindly get fucked.
It is for example not uncommon in teardown, some done by leading engineers in their entire field, to find out what some proprietarily marked chip is a few days after the fact. This is not a “fuck up”.
Reediting and reuploading a video just to change a single (but possibly important) detail is not only a colossal waste of time and effort that could be better spent on other videos, as far as I know it will also present itself as a new video.
Your comment makes no sense whatsoever.
It just means anyone in this position has to join the partnership program, but they can continue to NOT show ads on their channel (I don't like ads, so I don't show them on my channel).
10,000 views is honestly not a lot. If you follow any reasonable Youtube strategy for creating content, you'll reach that in no time. It's a minor inconvenience at best.
It does worry me tho, because in the future they may do other things to deter third party links.
It could be different now, but the last time I tried to answer this the answer was that preference is stored in a cookie and not globally. I have my browser set to dump cookies when it closes so I kept losing that setting.
But YT should let them link externally. Site's like Patreon are beneficial to everyone involved.
It's also helpful when they use the links as intended, like the video links to its own follow up video at the end.
I can totally see how these features could be abused by some channels, though.
Getting rid of them entirely would get rid of an easy and much needed way for the uploader to add corrections and other additions after the fact.
I do see videos where the annotations are rather annoying, but I don't think it's so often that it has been a terrible problem overall, and I have a suspicion that on those videos the annotations have not been the only annoying aspect.
Edit: I just saw further down that annotations are actually deprecated, and now I really wonder how people can add corrections to videos? Does that mean I have to read the description of every video I watch?
I just regard annotations and commercials (which aren't blocked by uBlock Origin) as part of a video. If you (or I) don't enjoy a video (for whatever reason), stopping watching it is always an option to consider.
I really wish the video image would have to be a frame taken from the video. Make it any frame, if the uploader cares so much they can include the image as a title card and pick a frame from that.
But they aren't replacing the legitimate need. Some videos do benefit from background material. Or a patreon type link to support the content creator.
Google should address the need. Otherwise it just looks like a tactic to keep people on YouTube.