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: 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

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Size: 360.45K

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Ranking

# 5161 ▼ 20

Other rankings

#514 in Just for Fun ▲ 7 #234 in youtube keyword 82 ▼ 34

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Annotations Restored for YouTube™ (v1.2)

4.59

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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.

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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

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Works well for the majority of videos
Nostalgic experience for users who liked annotations
Users appreciate the restoration of old YouTube annotations

Cons

Inconsistent performance with certain videos or obscure content
Reports of it not working or breaking at times
The extension does not allow users to create or edit their own annotations

Most mentioned

It works on many videos but not all
There are issues with it being broken or not functioning
Users would like additional features like an annotation editor

Recent 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.