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Restore animated thumbnail previews - youtube.com

To restore animated thumbnail previews. Requires inline video previews to be disabled in your YouTube user settings (Go to https://www.youtube.com/account_playback and set "video previews" to disabled). Not Greasemonkey compatible. v5 Add new method for getting an_webp GIF-style thumbs when not available in YT's new homepage UI or subscription page UI.

As of 22. 08. 2025. See the latest version.

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Jojo Stardust 18. 09. 2025
Last: seekhareAuthor 18. 09. 2025
Good Works fine but the interval won't stop due to clearTimeout instead of clearInterval
ebyam 14. 09. 2025
Last: ebyam 14. 09. 2025
Good The script no longer works sadly :/
dial-888 13. 09. 2025
Last: dial-888 14. 09. 2025
It's stop working for me on the main page in v.5.7 :( I'm using Chrome 140.0.7339.128 and Tampermonkey. Works only in the right side column on the video page and in the history.
dial-888 21. 01. 2025
Last: dial-888 13. 09. 2025
But today it's working again!
detfusco 18. 08. 2025
Last: detfusco 19. 08. 2025
Good I had to finally migrate from Chrome to Firefox. And while migrating my extensions I noticed restore animated thumbnail previews doesn't work on homepage. It works on subscription or history page b...
zfgfade 03. 07. 2025
Last: zfgfade 11. 08. 2025
Seems to be broken again. The home and subscriptions pages work fine, but the sidebar recommendations next to videos don't animate anymore.
dial-888 03. 08. 2025
Last: dial-888 05. 08. 2025
Good Last few days on the most videos - preview is 3 picture slideshow instead of the actual video preview :(
Jossy M 06. 12. 2024
Last: Jossy M 20. 02. 2025
As per Seekhare's post - was working fine for me until yesterday (Dec 5th) but no longer working as of today so I guess I'm one of the accounts they are trialling their changes on. Like others have...
elor1 12. 02. 2025
Last: seekhareAuthor 12. 02. 2025
Stopped working for me about a week ago. Seems to still work everywhere except the home page.
dial-888 20. 01. 2025
Seems it stop working for me too :(
seekhareAuthor 09. 11. 2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 10. 11. 2024
NOTICE: Youtube seems to be trialing an experiment on some user accounts that breaks the restoration of animated thumbnails on the homepage. I have experienced it myself and had it reported by othe...
David Bonilla Bravo 22. 10. 2024
Last: seekhareAuthor 02. 11. 2024
Good The script worked perfectly for months but since the new changes to Youtube's interface, it no longer works for me.
Australian Kangaroo Essence 06. 04. 2024
Good I though I messed up something with the many scripts/extension I have for YouTube, but this brought them back. Thank you!
Geets 08. 02. 2024
Good Thank You so much for this very much needed script. You're a life saver.
TsukiZero 30. 01. 2024
Good Great, because I was sick of Youtube's thumbnail shenanigans and the crappy captions slapped over the thumbnail.
Jhovannino 15. 12. 2023
Last: seekhareAuthor 15. 12. 2023
Good Can't download the script because this message: Ignoring @match pattern http*://www.youtube.com/* because: Error: @match: Invalid protocol (http*:) specified. I'm using Greasemonkey. I hope you c...
Cena Bale 15. 12. 2023
Good Thank you so much

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