{When using a crazy-stuffed basket of userscripts, together with the merry-go-round changes that Youtube luvs to make whenever the mood fancies them, is always a challenge to track down conflicts, install order quirks, etc} I got this to work by:
[1] Turn off 'Video Previews' in Youtube Settings > Playback and performance :: because, duhh!, it's using video not thumbnails.
[2] If not seeing the classic thumbnails 'carousel' when mouse hovering, you can try using also this script, but I'm not sure it's actually doing anything on my environment because still not seeing the carousel, just one thumbnail (yes, before enabling uday's script!).
[3] You might not want this running for every video entry, so I turned off the default Match in Tampermonkey; and had to format custom Matches with this exact structure https://www.youtube.com/@CJexample*
Finally figured out how to get this to work...
{When using a crazy-stuffed basket of userscripts, together with the merry-go-round changes that Youtube luvs to make whenever the mood fancies them, is always a challenge to track down conflicts, install order quirks, etc} I got this to work by:
[1] Turn off 'Video Previews' in Youtube Settings > Playback and performance :: because, duhh!, it's using video not thumbnails.
[2] If not seeing the classic thumbnails 'carousel' when mouse hovering, you can try using also this script, but I'm not sure it's actually doing anything on my environment because still not seeing the carousel, just one thumbnail (yes, before enabling uday's script!).
[3] You might not want this running for every video entry, so I turned off the default Match in Tampermonkey; and had to format custom Matches with this exact structure
https://www.youtube.com/@CJexample*NOT
https://www.youtube.com/@CJexample/videosorhttps://www.youtube.com/@CJexample/videos*orhttps://www.youtube.com/@CJexample/*Just wouldn't work otherwise on my env.
After all that if still not working, reload the page. Seems to kick the script into life.
@uday, thank you very much!- this does indeed smack down the thumbnail clickbait on Youtube!