<![CDATA[Blurry YouTube thumbnails text]]>Hello

Windows 10 21H2 19044.2130.
Opera Your version is 92.0.4561.21 fresh install.

Test sample TheDarkSomnium.

Screenshots (issue looks more clear in YouTube especially red text):
chrome->brave->opera:
3.png

Image tested (link directly form YouTube):
Chrome:
alt text
Brave:
alt text
Opera:
alt text

The problem (maybe), after lengthy test*, I try fiddling around with youtube css (image-rendering: , transform: , etc.) with not results, them notice in Chrome and Brave the thumbnails generated links are the same, but for some reason the link generated in/for opera is different 😮 :

Chrome:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLA0Ge8zxVdfumWWgVA3OjLPJ4-_FA
Brave:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEcCNACELwBSFXyq4qpAw4IARUAAIhCGAFwAcABBg==&rs=AOn4CLA0Ge8zxVdfumWWgVA3OjLPJ4-_FA
Opera:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLAUz6VUtsyrv5VZcfRvtnYM48ymHA

That explain why nothing works, the problem is Youtube/Opera compatibility at some level.

Reproduce on opera 69, 88, 89, 91, also in opera portable 91, 92.

*[
Try:
-Angle and gpu flags (Opengl, D3D9, vulkan, Accelerated 2D canvas, GPU rasterization, etc.), no results.
-NVidia control panel, no results.
-Rolling back Nvidia drivers. no results.
-Trying previous versions(69, 88, 89, 91), no results.
-windows creating a new user profile, no anti-virus or other programs running, no results.
-in other pc (windows 7 home premium, intel graphics) same results.
]

Thanks.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/58311/blurry-youtube-thumbnails-textRSS for NodeFri, 13 Mar 2026 09:08:36 GMTThu, 20 Oct 2022 00:30:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Blurry YouTube thumbnails text on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:49:13 GMT]]>@alobpreis said in Blurry YouTube thumbnails text:

@mrmufa5a I can't tell you why this happens, but what I did notice is that if you download the first two, the file is a .webp one (which might be a lossless image like PNG, or just with better compression), and the Opera one is a jpg, with clearly not the best compression rate. So basically that's why you see the blurry red text: jpg compression.
Now, why Opera goes that path, I have no clue. But for sure, there's no need to play with drivers or antivirus. 😛

notice that too today (webp and jpg), also if you delete all the hash after jpg, in youtube with dev tools/inspect element the blurriness goes away.

(
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gCI1L0gP-vk/hqdefault.jpg
all this
[?sqp=-oaymwEjCNACELwBSFryq4qpAxUIARUAAAAAGAElAADIQj0AgKJDeAE=&rs=AOn4CLAUz6VUtsyrv5VZcfRvtnYM48ymHA]
)

PS: This post reminded me of this other one, and -oh surprise-, it's yours too. 😃
https://forums.opera.com/topic/56658/blurry-images

Yup, that old post, the issue was blur small images in all pages, was an issue with opera versions 72 to 87 was fix in ver. 88 💪.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/291866https://forums.opera.com/post/291866Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:49:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blurry YouTube thumbnails text on Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:42:38 GMT]]>@mrmufa5a I can't tell you why this happens, but what I did notice is that if you download the first two, the file is a .webp one (which might be a lossless image like PNG, or just with better compression), and the Opera one is a jpg, with clearly not the best compression rate. So basically that's why you see the blurry red text: jpg compression.
Now, why Opera goes that path, I have no clue. But for sure, there's no need to play with drivers or antivirus. 😛

PS: This post reminded me of this other one, and -oh surprise-, it's yours too. 😃
https://forums.opera.com/topic/56658/blurry-images

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/291849https://forums.opera.com/post/291849Thu, 20 Oct 2022 04:42:38 GMT