How to Disable YouTube’s Pop-Up Annotations

For $10 a month, you can sign up for YouTube Red: a service that doesn’t play any ads on your YouTube videos.

But for $free, you can turn off the other annoying text elements: Those little pop-up rectangles that appear all over your video, saying things like “Click to Subscribe!” and “CLICK HERE to visit my Web site!”

YouTube calls those “annotations.” And they are, in fact, easy to turn off!

See the little sprocket-gear icon below the video? That’s a pop-up menu. And it contains an on/off switch for Annotations. (It also contains a speed control—1.25, 1.5 or 2x real-time speed—which is fantastic.)

Anyway: No more black rectangles superimposed on your video. Life goes on!

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