Can a user disable this 'feature'?
Is there anyway I can disable this, and just have the link appear, like it used to? That way, I could choose to click it or not.
Three problems with this 'feature':
1) It takes up a lot more real estate than a one line link. More scrolling required to view the thread.
2) At least in my browser, a page with a lot of these youtube links seems to really bog down things, my CPU usage sky-rockets until I close that window. I typically have dozens of windows/tabs open, a few of these with a bunch of youtube links brings me to a crawl (on my 4 YO lower-end computer, but still).
3) Generally, I don't see any added value. A frozen frame rarely even conveys what the content is. In fact, the simple link often tells me more.
In your example, the 'old way' with just the link gives me this look (I broke the link for demo purposes):
YouTube - Bogle: Keep Investing (Morningstar)
That tells me what I need to know. Adding a large frame to that with a still of old man Bogle doesn't do much for me, and in many cases the still seems to be some random frame that tells me nothing.
Any user-configurable thingee for this? Or now that the novelty has worn off ( and I admit, it seemed 'cool' to me at first), maybe a poll to see if people really like this? I really prefer the old way myself. Nice try, but after living with it a while I just feel there are far more cons than pros.
Thanks - ERD50
