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Re:YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos by pmichaud on Friday September 29, 2017 @07:40PM (#15370200)
I've been watching tutorial videos on software packages recently, and one really nice use case for annotations is that if there is out of date information in a specific sentence, they can just annotate it with the newer info instead of redoing the entire video.

It's also helpful when they use the links as intended, like the video links to its own follow up video at the end.

Re:YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos by ncallaway on Saturday September 30, 2017 @12:34AM (#15371250)
Yea, this is the case with almost every channel I watch. I've found annotations and links to be used responsibly and to usually be helpful.

I can totally see how these features could be abused by some channels, though.