Old YouTube annotations are still there!

Martinike · April 7, 2019, 4:21pm

As you know, the annotations are gone since January 15, 2019.

As I am a frequent viewer of the DataHoarder subreddit, I saw that they’ve been archiving annotation data from 1.4 billion videos. That’s crazy!

You can use this Firefox extension (works directly from YouTube servers) or this github thingie or even https://dev.invidio.us/ (if you don’t want to download addons) to restore the annotations!

Also, “If there is enough interest, an annotation creator can be made.”

Pretty exciting stuff! So if you’re interested head on over to this Reddit post by omarroth for more information.

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 4:36pm

I don’t like Firefox for chroming the web browser.

anon74637124 · April 7, 2019, 5:17pm

Your logic is like -9999

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 5:28pm

XUL > WebExtensions

anon74637124 · April 7, 2019, 5:28pm

and

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 5:29pm

You can’t use the extension.

anon74637124 · April 7, 2019, 5:30pm

y

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 5:33pm

WebExtensions are only in newer versions of Firefox, and you can only have a fork of Firefox 52.9 ESR. And that version does not have it.

anon74637124 · April 7, 2019, 5:34pm

There is some minimal support in serpent of them

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 5:38pm

Nope. The developers of Basilisk removed it in the 2019 versions.

anon74637124 · April 7, 2019, 5:39pm

You know that roytam1 can revert those removings and make then XP compatible?

icanttellyou · April 7, 2019, 5:39pm

>Implying that I use XP or Vista