Annotations Restored for YouTube™

Annotations Restored for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension developed by isaackd. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Annotations Restored for YouTube™ is 1.2, updated on 2022-09-18.
10,000+ users have installed this extension. 82 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Bring annotation support back to YouTube™!

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.

LATEST CHANGES (1.2)
- Close button works properly (finally)
- Speech bubbles can now be interacted with
- Support for 10 different locales (de, es, fr, it, ja, ko, ru, vi, zh_CN, zh_TW)

USAGE
The extension will automatically look for a copy of a video's annotations online and display them if found. Annotation files (.xml) that you have saved locally can also be loaded into the current video using the popup.

PERMISSIONS
Access your data for www.youtube.com
- Required to load the annotations into the video player

Screenshot video sources:

chuggaaconroy - Mario Menu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uwd5w1AwYU

DaeOh - Annotation Tetris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIIV6a2Pdh4

Email me with any translation fixes :)