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

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Post by Brajeshwar »

If I remember correctly, this has been there for a while. You can disable it at

[YourProfile] > Settings > Playback and performance > Turn OFF the "Inline Playback" Button.

The weird thing is, this settings do not seem to stick when logging off and then in again. I remember setting this off few times.

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

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Post by akomtu »

This is "growth inwards": when a business unit can't keep growing outwards, it turns to this pathological mode where it squeezes out all value from its users and reputation. In practice, the corporate peons must find new ways to extract this value, regardless of whether it hurts the org in the long run.

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

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Post by bayesianbot »

knaik94 wrote: post #15

For me the delay on the home screen is long enough that I don't do it accidentally. It happens when I search as well and it's really useful when seeing if it's what I am looking for. I appreciate that it's muted. I have gotten used to resting the mouse cursor outside the thumbnail. I guess I changed my behavior without realizing, I can't remember when that feature was enabled for me. I personally find it useful as lo…

The subtitles on desktop do work for me (and I agree that's a great function). I think you'll have to mess around your settings somehow. I got A/B tested to this hover feature months ago and the subtitles have been working all that time.

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

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Post by jhanschoo »

I find it useful, ymmv. It's a better preview for me than the thumbnails they used to use, or the slideshow they were using before this change.

There's also a certain format on YT where a person says they are going to discuss X in the title, then wastes minutes belaboring on tangents and details before spending 5 seconds discussing X proper. This scrobbable preview helps me evaluate prior if their videos are worth watching.

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

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Post by ksec »

Edit: Oh I completely misread it. Yes the autoplay on front-page was annoying as hell but it was only on for a few weeks and now it is off. They must be doing A/B testing.

I had not idea why I read it as thumbnails in player. I leave the original comments below in tact.

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Interesting to see comments here so far.

I like it, a lot. I can now glance at the thumbnails and jump to section I am looking for. And the thumbnails are so fast it is near if not a native experience. ( I mean the thumbnails, not the actual playback experience which is far from native ) To be point I wonder how it is done. But I never had time to look it up.

Things I want would be Bitrate for Video and Audio in "Stats for nerds and better Skipping Video performance. Not sure why video experience in browser are always subpar. Especially considering most of my video are now consumed in browser.

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