I’d very much like annotations of embedded Youtube videos to be hidden by default.
On the Youtube site, I am able to do this in their playback settings and with 3rd party extension tools. But on embedded videos on Newsblur, the annotations always show.
I remember that you (Samuel) tweaked embedded youtube videos to contain the fullscreen button. So I am sure hiding annotations is possible.
I did some digging, and hiding annotations can be done by appending “iv_load_policy=3” to the end of an embedded URL. The current default is “iv_load_policy=1”, which shows annotations.
The following three links should give you some more insight.
Can you disable them in your Youtube account, then everybody’s Youtube cookie will dictate their preferred kind of player? I’m pretty sure that’s what I’ve done at home.
I can’t imagine who on earth would, but some people might prefer to see annotations.