How to block YouTube’s annoying and pointless new animated ‘thumbnail previews’ of videos in the search-results.<\/p>\n
1. Open your uBlock Origin browser ad-blocking addon.<\/p>\n
2. Go to uBlock’s “My Filters” tab.<\/p>\n
3. Add …<\/p>\n
i.ytimg.com\/an_webp<\/strong><\/p>\n …to any blank line, either at the top or start of your Blocklist, as you prefer. This leaves preview thumbnails intact, while stopping the ‘animated GIF-like’ previews that play when you mouseover the search result.<\/p>\n This or a similar rule should also work in other ad-blockers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How to block YouTube’s annoying and pointless new animated ‘thumbnail previews’ of videos in the search-results. 1. Open your uBlock …<\/p>\n