It's really annoying when you click a YouTube thumbnail in the Google search results now because it doesn't take you to the target site like any other search result. Nope. Now YouTube results are "special" because they want to take you on a "video voyage" to discover the thing you clicked on and they show you a stupid embedded player with crappy video quality that plays right in the Google search results page. (Only for YouTube results! That's not confusing at all!)
So here's one way that I stopped that by using StyleBot...
/** Make the real search result link taller. */
div[data-surl] a[data-ved] {
position:relative;
display: block;
padding-bottom:200px;
}
/** Move embedded player container underneath the real search result. */
div[data-surl] div[jsshadow] {
margin-top:-200px;
max-height: 100px;
}
/** Disable embedded player link href for good measure. */
div[data-surl] a[data-vll] {
pointer-events: none;
cursor: default;
}Without this change, when you click a Google search result that goes to a YouTube video, they remove all the content from the search results page and show you something like the following. If you happened to "middle-click" the result, you get the same thing but in a new tab.
Perhaps there's a setting somewhere to change this for signed-in users but I generally don't sign into Google or YouTube unless I'm using a specific browser profile that needs to be signed in (for work).
