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Cluttering YouTube Videos wth Text Just Got Easier

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YouTube YouTube Video Annotations let users add text within their own videos. Kind of like YouTube Annotationsbring up a pretty good point. "Too often, users already overuse the annotations to advertise some of their other videos or to remind us that the video is also available in HD (a note that also pops up when you are already watching the video in HD, by the way)."

Between the annotations and the pop-up ads YouTube has been putting in videos, it can get a bit annoying to the viewer who is used to watching clean, uninterrupted videos on the site. Lardinois does note that a
Annotations with links do give users the opportunity to make more interactive videos, and from a marketing perspective, this can certainly be an interesting point. Still, I don't think anyone wants to see YouTube turn into a big pit of video ads.

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