YouTube is shutting off those annoying pop-up annotations for good on January 15

Remember when every YouTube video was plastered with multiple obnoxious annotations overlaying parts of the screen and beseeching you to click? Well, that era is finally drawing to its inevitable close. The video platform discontinued its annotations editor on May 2nd, 2017, and will stop showing any existing annotations on January 15th, 2019.

This isn't much of a loss - annotations were never good - but it does mark the disappearance of a noteworthy part of YouTube's history.

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