YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019

Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by donatj on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:01AM (#18541947)

I genuinely don’t believe it. They’re not using the native video player in their apps. If they can overlay controls they can overlay annotations.

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by mikewhy on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:23AM (#18542063)

What about the mobile site?

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by kibwen on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:26AM (#18542976)

There's no NPAPI plugin required for desktop users to view annotations. All of YouTube works using standardized web tech, and mobile browsers and desktop browsers are the same underlying engines with different chrome. There's no technical reason why annotations couldn't work on the mobile site, though from a UI perspective you'd need to size them appropriately for fingers to interact with. It's not that Google can't, it's that they simply don't want to.

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by untog on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @04:12PM (#18546816)

That's not quite true. If you want to view the video in fullscreen on iOS it'll just show the content of the video tag and nothing else. They're working on Fullscreen API support, though.

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Re:YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January... by seba_dos1 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @10:29AM (#18542999)

Same.

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