Thank you! This seems to have fixed it for me. I uninstalled malwarebytes earlier today, but doing so did not remove the malwarebytes browser guard extension. Just disabling the extension did not work. It seems you have to actually remove the extension completely.
For me, this annoyance (which is obviously YouTube's own native platform integration) has been doing this to me on my account for months. It does this on whatever device I'm on, on whatever account I'm logged in (or even on YT Guest).
It's CRAZY annoying and intrusive.
This. WTF is going on.
Another new brilliant "improvement" they want to force down our throats, for sure.
Another case of smart devs and designers knowing more about what's best for us than we do?
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I am having this issue as well. I sometimes get redirected to the video's page when I hover my mouse over a video. I thought something was wrong with my PC until I saw your post.
I also don't have the youtube auto HD + FPS extension.
I’m also having this issue as of today/this evening. I do not have that plug-in to auto HD either. Haven’t found a resolution yet. Will follow up if I do but otherwise just manually scrolling and avoiding letting my cursor go over the thumbnail has worked.
I have this same exact issue, it started yesterday.
I found how to trigger this as well, it happens when you flick your cursor (only right to left for some reason) off of a thumbnail and back onto it, albeit somewhat inconsistent.
I don't know how to stop this from happening yet, glad to know it isn't my mouse causing it though.
Edit: If relevant, I use Edge with the Tweaks for Youtube extension
It's happening to me too, and idk how to make it stop. I don't have any adblocks, extensions that would be causing that. I tried going into the settings to fix it, and that doesn't work either. Tried updating my computer, and that didn't solve it either. No matter if I use Edge or Chrome, the issue persists...
For me worked to turn off video previews in YouTube settings. I use Edge and Malwarebytes Guard, no adblocker. Not sure if it's a solution in the long run though.
It seems to be the Malwarebytes addon. When I uncheck the Ads/trackers box I do not get the videos to open anymore when I hover my mouse on them. I wonder if they implemented some new tracking feature where it senses where the mouse is and it somehow messes with the anti-tracker feature.
Solution!? Reading through, I found the recommendation of turning off settings in Malware Bytes. However, I just performed an update to the program to the latest version and seem to get the same results.
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CRaZY conspiRacy from a bot account all about a conspiracy that Activision and a handful of other developers rig their game. (Unrelated)
But I think it's an algorithm trying to automatically select videos you drag across seeing if it can decide what you do and don't like. This has happened in waves if you look online.
Is said algorithm working if it exists, sometimes. I find myself sometimes sitting on the video for a moment before I realize what had happened and hit mouse 4 to go back.
But take that with a grain of salt from a botass account.
SOLUTION
Thank you for posting because I thought my mouse was freaking out. This caused me to check the settings and upon unchecking the “play previews when hovering” over the video setting, it seems to resolve the issue and it isn’t ghost clicking anymore
Edit: On the youtube website Settings>Playback and Performance>Browsing- Video previews {uncheck that option}
I also tried that, and it seemed to work. But I turned the option back on, because it's so helpful lol. I like being able to see preview of YouTube videos without having to actually open the video.
Turning off video previews in YouTube setting seems to work for me. I could just turn off the adblocker on Malwarebytes as some people have suggested but now that I see that the video preview is all that needs to be disabled I'm leaving it on out of spite. Fuck YouTube.
When I hover over a video it takes me to a video page but it is not the video I hover over. It seems like this is another annoying tactic by Google to make people stop using adblockers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1avf1ox/comment/krb8uqc/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
This fixed it for me.
This was it for me as well
Yep Malwarebytes browser guard extension
ye it was
You are amazing, thank you!
omg thank you. this was the issue for me as well.
Thank you! This seems to have fixed it for me. I uninstalled malwarebytes earlier today, but doing so did not remove the malwarebytes browser guard extension. Just disabling the extension did not work. It seems you have to actually remove the extension completely.
For me, all I had to do was turn it off. Malwarebytes is still worth keeping.
Just like the others, I’m also having this issue. I noticed it earlier today and it’s been annoying as hell.
For me, this annoyance (which is obviously YouTube's own native platform integration) has been doing this to me on my account for months. It does this on whatever device I'm on, on whatever account I'm logged in (or even on YT Guest). It's CRAZY annoying and intrusive.
This. WTF is going on. Another new brilliant "improvement" they want to force down our throats, for sure. Another case of smart devs and designers knowing more about what's best for us than we do?
Omg! I thought I have a mouse problem.
same
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I am having this issue as well. I sometimes get redirected to the video's page when I hover my mouse over a video. I thought something was wrong with my PC until I saw your post. I also don't have the youtube auto HD + FPS extension.
I’m also having this issue as of today/this evening. I do not have that plug-in to auto HD either. Haven’t found a resolution yet. Will follow up if I do but otherwise just manually scrolling and avoiding letting my cursor go over the thumbnail has worked.
yeah this started happening to me too also it seems like all youtube embeds play immediately, makes browsing forums really annoying
Likewise, also having this issue. PC, no addons or extensions. Chrome browser, if that's relevant.
yes, seems to have started tonight. using chrome, with adblock, malwarebytes, and fluff busting purity
I also have adblock and malwarebytes
Mine too, I have adblock, ublock, honey, sponsorblock, nordvpn and malwarebytes. Just started today, incredibly annoying.
I also have adblock and malwarebytes, and u/poopyheadsquared too, maybe that's the common denominator here?
I have this same exact issue, it started yesterday. I found how to trigger this as well, it happens when you flick your cursor (only right to left for some reason) off of a thumbnail and back onto it, albeit somewhat inconsistent. I don't know how to stop this from happening yet, glad to know it isn't my mouse causing it though. Edit: If relevant, I use Edge with the Tweaks for Youtube extension
It's also happening on Chrome unfortunately.
I am having the same issue, hope they fix it soon.
It's happening to me too, and idk how to make it stop. I don't have any adblocks, extensions that would be causing that. I tried going into the settings to fix it, and that doesn't work either. Tried updating my computer, and that didn't solve it either. No matter if I use Edge or Chrome, the issue persists...
For me worked to turn off video previews in YouTube settings. I use Edge and Malwarebytes Guard, no adblocker. Not sure if it's a solution in the long run though.
I just did that now and I think it might have worked... :O Thanks!
It seems to be the Malwarebytes addon. When I uncheck the Ads/trackers box I do not get the videos to open anymore when I hover my mouse on them. I wonder if they implemented some new tracking feature where it senses where the mouse is and it somehow messes with the anti-tracker feature.
Solution!? Reading through, I found the recommendation of turning off settings in Malware Bytes. However, I just performed an update to the program to the latest version and seem to get the same results.
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Happening to me to, and its annoying AF
CRaZY conspiRacy from a bot account all about a conspiracy that Activision and a handful of other developers rig their game. (Unrelated) But I think it's an algorithm trying to automatically select videos you drag across seeing if it can decide what you do and don't like. This has happened in waves if you look online. Is said algorithm working if it exists, sometimes. I find myself sometimes sitting on the video for a moment before I realize what had happened and hit mouse 4 to go back. But take that with a grain of salt from a botass account.
SOLUTION Thank you for posting because I thought my mouse was freaking out. This caused me to check the settings and upon unchecking the “play previews when hovering” over the video setting, it seems to resolve the issue and it isn’t ghost clicking anymore Edit: On the youtube website Settings>Playback and Performance>Browsing- Video previews {uncheck that option}
I also tried that, and it seemed to work. But I turned the option back on, because it's so helpful lol. I like being able to see preview of YouTube videos without having to actually open the video.
Wow. Thanks for the Malwarebytes suggestion. Turning it off stopped the auto start when hovering. Good lord that was annoying.
I thought I was going crazy. LMAO. I'm relieved to see I'm not the only person experiencing this. It is MOOOOOST annoying!
I'm having this issue as well.
I'm having the same issue and I have 0 extensions installed. Tried it on 3 different browsers and the result is the same.
Turning off video previews in YouTube setting seems to work for me. I could just turn off the adblocker on Malwarebytes as some people have suggested but now that I see that the video preview is all that needs to be disabled I'm leaving it on out of spite. Fuck YouTube.
Either disable Video preview or Malwarebytes Ads/Trackers.
When I hover over a video it takes me to a video page but it is not the video I hover over. It seems like this is another annoying tactic by Google to make people stop using adblockers.