Annotations Restored for YouTube™

Bring annotation support back to YouTube™!

Annotations Restored for YouTube™ - Restore YouTube Annotations

Annotations Restored for YouTube™ is a ground-breaking Chrome extension designed to bring back the valuable annotation feature that YouTube discontinued in 2019. It does this by scanning the net for any archived annotation files and presenting them on the appropriate videos. In addition, users may load locally saved annotation files (.xml) onto the video of choice, thereby preserving the interactivity and additional information that annotations once provided.

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By: https://isaackei.com

Users: 30,000+

Rating: 4.32

(115)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2023-06-26)

Creation date: 2020-01-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 360.45K

Email: af*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 4,667 ▲ 27

Other rankings

#508 in Just for Fun ▼ 1 #209 in youtube keyword 95 ▼ 22

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Annotations Restored for YouTube™ (v1.2)

4.59

(29) 7,690+

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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On January 15 2019, YouTube decided to discontinue annotations. While the feature was frequently abused, it did have many legitimate use cases, such as games, corrections, and a form of commentary that could be toggled on and off. The removal left many older videos obsolete. Annotations Restored fixes this by searching for any archived annotation files and displaying them if found.

Join the Discord!: https://discord.gg/v7xMm2r8wH

LATEST CHANGES (1.2.1)

Added Discord link to popup
Support for Portuguese by Gersonzao
Support for Polish by Kamil K

USAGE The extension will automatically look for a copy of a video's annotations online and display them if found. Annotation files (.xml) that you have saved locally can also be loaded into the current video using the popup.

PERMISSIONS Access your data for www.youtube.com

Required to load the annotations into the video player

User reviews

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Pros

Works well on most videos
Nostalgic for users who miss annotations
Easy to use
Provides a better viewing experience for videos with annotations

Cons

Often has issues loading annotations for obscure videos
Does not work on all videos or embeds
Sometimes reports that no video is playing
Has breaking issues reported frequently

Most mentioned

Works well but not on all videos
Needs an annotation editor feature
Inconsistent performance on obscure videos
Has stopped working for some users

User reviews

Pretty bloody good, on 99.9% of videos i've used this on, it's worked flawlessly. My only issue is that it relies on some kind of cache or web crawl to get the annotations. This means that on really obscure videos, the annotations don't show up. The only way to get them back is if the uplaoder also has the extension and uploads the annotation files. However, this happened to me on literally 1 video after using this for 4 years.