Enable Youtube Annotations: can I (and how)?

[Walter Dnes]

It will default to showing the annotations option. If you're having trouble starting the video then it will not have received the metadata for that video yet which would include a per-video setting for annotations...

I don't understand the logic. Why are the other 4 options always available in that case?

[Fanrail]

now videos are endlessly loading until I click on them to pause and then again to play. And then they don't play

I too have autoplay set to false in about:config, and for me it shows the (endlessly) loading animation when I open a video in YouTube, and it doesn’t play until I click once to pause and again to play, and then it plays.

annotations are disabled on YouTube in general. I know there is an extension to enable them on Firefox, but is there such one for Pale Moon?

I couldn’t find any for Pale Moon™/Basilisk; I think that’s because YouTube decided to discontinue video annotations around 2019, when Firefox was already using WebExtensions. But I found a userscript for YouTube¹ that restores them. It aims to recreate the YouTube layout of ~2013. It also increases the YouTube performance greatly. It’s called VORAPIS (or just V3):

https://vorapis.pages.dev/

To use in Pale Moon™/Basilisk you have to download de .zip file available in the site, extract the “Vorapis.user.js” and import it through Greasemonkey for Pale Moon².

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Off-topic:
1. I’ve tested the following YouTube userscripts:
•Youtube polymer engine fixes, which doesn’t fix for most part the ugliness, and I couldn’t notice any increase in performance.
•YouTube Classic, idem.
•7ktTube, which doesn’t fix for most part the ugliness, and I couldn’t notice any increase in performance (and videos are not playing?).
•Cosmic Cat, which is not working anymore (dead).

2. Maybe Tampermonkey > Greasemoneky?

How do I import the javascript file? There isn't an import button in Pale Moon for Greasemonkey.

[moonbat]

How do I import the javascript file? There isn't an import button in Pale Moon for Greasemonkey.

Off-topic:
Don't quote entire previous comments when replying, highlight the relevant sentence and press the quote button ["] on the top right of the comment you're replying to.

The Greasemonkey toolbar button has an option to create a new userscript, use that, specify a name and then click OK, it will display a mini editor where you can paste the content of the script.

[Fanrail]

How do I import the javascript file? There isn't an import button in Pale Moon for Greasemonkey.

Off-topic:
Don't quote entire previous comments when replying, highlight the relevant sentence and press the quote button ["] on the top right of the comment you're replying to.

The Greasemonkey toolbar button has an option to create a new userscript, use that, specify a name and then click OK, it will display a mini editor where you can paste the content of the script.

It asks me to set space for my script. Does it mean I need to write something in "Space of names"? If so, what?

[moonbat]

Why are you again quoting my entire post?
The name is just a name, and the namespace is for the script author's name.

[Fanrail]

Why are you again quoting my entire post?
The name is just a name, and the namespace is for the script author's name.

Thanks for advice. And as for why I quoted you again with just entire post: it was an accident, I did only highlight the required string with my left mouse button, but when I pressed on the "reply with quote" button, it copied it all and I didn't notice.

[moonbat]

And as for why I quoted you again with just entire post: it was an accident

No worries
Note that you can edit the script anytime after adding it to change the name & namespace.

[gabrgv]

my "palemoon" profile (not logged in to Youtube) shows 5 items from the "gear" menu, namely "Stable Volume", "Annotations", "Subtitles", "Playback Speed", and "Quality".

It will default to showing the annotations option.

Though I’m almost sure the “Annotations” option in current YouTube is not the same as the one I enabled in the second screenshot of my previous post, which says “Check out this year's version”, etc.

[Fanrail]

Though I’m almost sure the “Annotations” option in current YouTube is not the same as the one I enabled in the second screenshot of my previous post, which says “Check out this year's version”, etc.

Well, I checked that video with V3 on and annotations on, yet I can't see that annotations of yours. Also, why does it say "This product is not genuine." at the bottom right?

[gabrgv]

yet I can't see that annotations of yours. Also, why does it say "This product is not genuine." at the bottom right?

Try updating the userscript here (the page now has a button to install it).

Also, why does it say "This product is not genuine." at the bottom right?

For me, there’s nothing at the bottom right except for the script configuration options. I guess it could be related to the way you installed the userscript. I myself just downloaded the way I described above, then ran like this: “basilisk -P [my-test-profile] ~/Downloads/Vorapis.user.js” (of course you could just do File > Open File… > etc.). But, as I said, it’s not necessary anymore.

[Fanrail]

yet I can't see that annotations of yours. Also, why does it say "This product is not genuine." at the bottom right?

Try updating the userscript here (the page now has a button to install it).

Well, I did download it, but since Pale Moon technically isn't Firefox or Chrome, I installed it as a user script (I installed the archive, unpacked it, then installed the javascript file via Greasemonkey).

[Honeyko]

I'd kill to be able to *disable* annotations on YouTube when I am not logged in. (Is there a reliable XUL extension that does that? Kills 'em across the board, but doesn't remove the button to turn them back on manually?)