Anyone can stop Youtube from previewing videos on Edge?

Hi,
I learned something about Youtube when I was on vacation. I was on a cellphone plan with limited data.

I noticed after using Youtube on the Safari browser, it had used up a tremendous amount of data.
And I only watched one or two short videos on 240p, and Youtube used up 1-Gig!
I suspected the culprit was the video previews. Because I was doing lots of browsing on Youtube's main page. I suspect youtube download the videos in high resolution before you even click on it!

I notice on Windows Edge, YouTube also aggressively preview videos. Is there a way to stop this?

Thanks!

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p.s. I already tried to disable the "Browsing--inline playback" in Playback-and-Perfmance setting.
But it didn't work.

Maybe this only works if you are a Premium Member?

Youtube videos don't use a lot of data. Do you have data that shows it specifically as Youtube being the culprit? you would need to watch like 1000+ minutes of video time for 240p video to take 1gb data.

Just use Invidious.

Invidious Instances - Invidious Documentation

Invidious Instances

It's not an app. 720p resolution is the highest available. Correction. See posts below.

So if that's a problem use it to search for and preview videos then open the YouTube link.

Example:
costa rica 4k hd - Invidious

Open video and click "Watch on youtube"

If you want an app that used Invidious there's FreeTube but configuration might be an issue. Also it has 1080p limit for playback. Or at least for me anything higher breaks it.

https://www.tenforums.com/misc.php?do=showrules

Send a link to the problem channel.

I stand corrected. Open preferences.

Preferences - Invidious

Or use the settings cog.

Set DASH. (See items in red boxes)

Result:

Also if watching live news channel try the embed link and id

https://inv.zzls.xyz/embed/id

Yes it does. So use another instance. All instances are separately maintained and may not have the same features or work in exactly the same way. Usually if I encounter a particular problem with one instance, the fix is switch to another instance until the issue has been resolved.

Try the instance I linked earlier or find one nearer with the option to change video quality.

Preferences - Invidious

Preferences - Invidious