Annotations Restored for YouTube™

Bring annotation support back to YouTube™!

What is Annotations Restored for YouTube™?

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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Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.29 (96) ▲ 1 new ratings

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

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Size: 360.45K

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 5586 ▼ 84

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#424 in Just for Fun ▼ 5 #197 in discord keyword 31 ▼ 5 #232 in youtube keyword 91 ▼ 18

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Annotations Restored for YouTube™ (v1.2)

4.56 (25) 6,614+

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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.

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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

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Brings back old YouTube annotations
Useful for watching old interactive videos
Nostalgic for users

Cons

Some users experience issues with compatibility and functionality
Request for additional features, such as hiding the 'restore annotations' button

Most mentioned

Nostalgic for users
Useful for watching old interactive videos
Some users experience issues with compatibility and functionality

Recent reviews

Hunter Lee (DragoCrafterr), 2024-04-16

At first it worked properly, but then for some reason it just stopped working. The annotations didn't appear at all. Why does this happen?

Emily, 2022-04-30

The extension is really good!! But there are a few bugs... For example sometimes when the annotations show up on a video it glitches and shows up in the video i watch next, please fix this if you can