Ask HN: New YouTube hover feature? Does anyone else find this annoying?

I noticed on the youtube homepage that I cannot hover over a video thumbnail without it getting big and auto playing a portion. Does anyone else find this annoying as hell?

I understand the argument about how people don't like change (which will probably be the first counter to my complaining) but this is somewhat overstepping a line for me.

What say you, HN?

I think the preview has been there for a little while. I like that feature.

The div zooming by 120% seems new, and I am not fond of it.

It is annoying. It interferes with my browsing.

This reminds me of when they introduced the autoplay when scrolling on the mobile app. I'm fine with getting an audio-free preview, assuming I'm not on mobile data, but they originally started kicking the videos they'd preview into your history. I had a moderately well trained profile that kept my junk to a minimum but boy-oh-boy, all these "useless" (as in no value to me) YT shorts started invading my recommendations because of the feedback loop it gave itself.

I think I either finally found the option to not, or they reverted the change that put them into your history. Or maybe it's still happening. I've also noticed while scrolling on mobile (android) app, I found myself seeking the video preview, instead of scrolling up, because they enabled the ability to scrub these previews and my scrolling digit would often just land on the 5 pixel tall scrollbar element. Weird choices. Am a premium subscriber - I like to tailor my account to videos I want and take the time to deny suggestions and describe why in the hopes I get recommended less TikTok > YouTube repost junk.. did a pretty good job until they messed with it.