As of May 2, you won’t have to close any more of those frustrating text boxes that block your view of the latest YouTube video with the company announcing in a blog post that it will be removing the Annotations Editor entirely.
The Google-owned video giant cites a number of reasons for killing off its annotation feature, among them is the fact that it never worked for mobile, and that there’s been a 70 percent decrease in usage of the feature since video-makers began adopting the (more effective) Cards and End Screens features.
