YouTube has at lastly added thumbnail previews on its desktop platform. Users of the popular online streaming media can now hover their mouse on any video thumbnail on the website to get a 3 second preview of the clip contents. Actually, this is still limited to certain browsers – Chrome and Opera and it’s not yet available for mobile users.

The absence of thumbnail previews made it challenging to glance through the content of the video without clicking it, yet some video sites have been making use of this technology for years now. Some content creators have been taking advantage of this YouTube weakness to exaggerate or over-hyped their videos with unrelated thumbnail images, thus attracting viewers to clicking on it.

Now, with the thumbnail preview users can quickly scan through the video to see if it is what they are actually looking for before clicking.

Regrettably, this perhaps won't stop the clickbaiters for long. Checking the last line in YouTube's support post, it states: "Currently, creators are not able to select the preview that is shown." The "currently" part simply means, content creators might eventually allowed by YouTube to set their own previews for thumbnails later on.

With that, we will soon be seeing corners cutters.

http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/07/youtube-introduces-thumbnail-previews.html

that's a good one

saves enough people the data and blows the lead off those yeye misleading videos.

can't forget the id1ot who posted 'Underworld Revolution' full movie link years ago only for me to download to find some cookie-cutter advert stuff in there, right after fake opening credits, on loop. the kind swear wey i swear for am ontop my lost data, am sure hin go don run go jam yahoo-boy somewhere too.

Great!

So how do you RickRoll people now?

Pornhub users are already accustomed to this feature

That's good,that has been A challenge

fair enough

lemme cum N be going

Been there a long time ago if you google chrome then you will notice it

naptu2:
So how do you RickRoll people now?

Insert part of the 'luring' thumbnail and mix it with the irrelevant video. Truth is, it's difficult to know what interests people. A 5 sec video can have millions of views, an audio clip with no images can have same while a video copied from another page will generate more views than the owner of the content itself. I think that's the next place YouTube will go - content ownership. Even where people give credit, I guess they'll introduce a feature that makes it play automatically on the owner's page

This is why i love xvideos

RobinRay:
Pornhub users are already accustomed to this feature

number one porn site viewer

RobinRay:
Pornhub users are already accustomed to this feature

mofo

samzzycash:
This is why i love xvideos

chill

RobinRay:
Pornhub users are already accustomed to this feature

Which Pornhub? Or you are referring to Xvideos?

Bad market for IpobExposed... No more fraudulent thumbnails

IdeyFindWife:
that's a good one

saves enough people the data and blows the lead off those yeye misleading videos.

can't forget the id1ot who posted 'Underworld Revolution' full movie link years ago only for me to download to find some cookie-cutter advert stuff in there, right after fake opening credits, on loop. the kind swear wey i swear for am ontop my lost data, am sure hin go don run go jam yahoo-boy somewhere too.

The guy dey isale Odo, receiving prayer.. forgive him

Is that true.?

Which browser is it compatible with ?

Oh men they won dry my pocket o

Greenbullet:
mofo

awwwn

Facebook, YouTube, whatsapp and Co are upgrading and reviewing their status, but Nairaland which I've known for almost 10years now haven't done any notable upgrade or review, just same thing we've known for donkey years.
The only known upgrade is tribalism and ethnocentrism.
At times, sole proprietorship could be bad as witness with Nairaland

gameboyo:
Facebook, YouTube, whatsapp and Co are upgrading and reviewing their status, but Nairaland which I've known for almost 10years now haven't done any notable upgrade or review, just same thing we've known for donkey years.
The only known upgrade is tribalism and ethnocentrism.
At times, sole proprietorship could be bad as witness with Nairaland

very true

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Jabioro:
The guy dey isale Odo, receiving prayer.. forgive him

;Dhin go dey chop better fish for mammy water side there sef

IdeyFindWife:


;Dhin go dey chop better fish for mammy water side there sef

IdeyFindWife:


;Dhin go dey chop better fish for mammy water side there sef

temitofa:


http://www.tellforceblog.com/2017/07/youtube-introduces-thumbnail-previews.html

Alright. As for me I suffered clicking countless videos on YouTube when I wanted to watch AY's A Trip to Jamaica. I got to know in the recent past that it is not on YouTube but there are thousands of Titles with the above name to deceive people in viewing.

I guess with this thumbnail preview it will be fair to know what one is about to watch.

Thanks for sharing.