Maybe you noticed, maybe not; Maybe you like the way it works, maybe not. We are talking about Play spots on YouTubea new feature of the Google video service web application or the same YouTube site.

YouTube playback is a feature – we repeat this feature so we don’t call it a “thing” – that zooms in and plays automatically when you hover over thumbnails. In addition, the enlarged thumbnail displays two “play later” or “add to queue” buttons for the video.

This in-situ YouTube playback is similar to Netflix, for example, except that the YouTube video will play in full if you hold the cursor and can be deactivated. And it pays to do so for more than one reason, but mainly because of the unnecessary and absurd nature of the “function.”

Have you noticed? Like? To give you a good idea, this is what YouTube’s new in-situ playback looks like:

YouTube In-Situ playback

What’s the problem with this YouTube on-site playback? The most visible, which spends resources without much sense and in fact depending on the capacity of the team, can work regularlydelays generates more browser load and slows down web navigation… Besides what has been said: it’s a useless feature that contributes little: who will watch such a video?

Disabling YouTube playback on the site is a matter of access to the appropriate option, with just a click, which you may not have considered because you didn’t even consider the topic. Google simply implements these things, and if you don’t care about watching … you eat them with potatoes when you don’t have to.

In short, you can deactivate it by going to «Settings> Playback and performance»And uncheck the last option at the bottom:« Navigation> On-site playback ».

Do you know what is the best? That you barely lose functionality: when you place the cursor on a video, some snippets play as a preview, but without sound; and the “play later” or “add to queue” buttons appear. As recently, before Google implemented a feature that no one asked for.