YouTube giveth, and YouTube taketh away. The Google service has announced that it is getting rid of annotations, the obnoxious boxes that popup over a video to provide a link to a different video or ...

In a small update to a YouTube support page last month, the online video giant announced that annotations would be deleted from all videos using the feature early next year. Image: Youtube / ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Google has announced that annotations will be removed from all content on its video platform, YouTube. The switch-off will take place in January 2019, 11 years since they initially launched. Google ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

YouTube is replacing its annoying video annotations with a new "cards" system that looks a bit classier albeit more obstructive. Here's what you can expect to see on both desktops and mobile devices ...

YouTube has long introduced ways for users to annotate their videos and add links to external websites, other videos on the site, and more. But I haven’t seen that many people or companies make use of ...