Remove Youtube Annotation Using iv_load_policy=3

Question

I am appending iv_load_policy=3 to the end of my YouTube URL to remove the annotations on the video, but I find it is not working. Looking on Google, it seems like

Answer 1

You can only use the iv_load_policy when embedding videos using one of the player apis - you can't just change the youtube watch page url.

For example, if you wanted to embed the video you linked above without annotations, you could use this link: http://www.youtube.com/embed/87kezJTpyMI?hd=1&iv_load_policy=3