Annotations Restored for YouTube™

Bring annotation support back to YouTube™!

Users40K

Rating4.2

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Version1.2.1

ManifestV3

Size352KiB

Languages13Deutsch / English / Tiếng Việt +10

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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

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AI product read

Restores discontinued YouTube annotations by fetching archived annotation files from a public repository and rendering them as overlays on YouTube videos.

YouTube discontinued annotations on January 15, 2019, rendering many older videos (with games, corrections, commentary) obsolete. This extension brings back annotation support by sourcing archived annotation data.

User installs extension and visits a YouTube video page. The content script detects the video ID, communicates with the background service worker, which fetches the corresponding annotation XML from a GCS bucket. If found, annotations are parsed and rendered as overlays on the video. The popup shows annotation details and allows downloading or loading local XML files.

Target users: YouTube viewers who want to see legacy annotations on older videos / Fans of YouTube series that relied on annotations (e.g., interactive games, choose-your-own-adventure) / Content creators and archivists preserving YouTube history

Cannot verify whether the GCS annotation archive is comprehensive or maintained long-term
Optional 'downloads' permission is only requested on-demand for saving files

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No paid features detected

The extension is completely free with no gating of features behind payment. There is a Ko-Fi donation link in the popup footer, but this is voluntary support and does not gate any functionality. All keyword matches for 'paid' (pro) are false positives from Spanish/Portuguese translations (e.g., 'Procurando' = 'Searching') and JavaScript code patterns (Promise, progInt). No subscription, billing, license, or upgrade logic exists.

Confidence: 100
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Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension works entirely client-side on YouTube pages. It fetches annotation XML files from a public Google Cloud Storage bucket and renders them on videos. There is no authentication flow, login UI, account creation, or API requiring credentials anywhere in the codebase.

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