Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube

Enhance focus on YouTube by hiding distractions like thumbnails, shorts, irrelevant results, live chats, and recommendations.

Hide Thumbnails & Shorts on YouTube

"Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your focus on YouTube. It allows users to hide various page elements including thumbnails, shorts, recommendations, and live chats, helping to eliminate distractions and avoid mindless video browsing. Users can easily toggle features across different YouTube pages to create a more streamlined and focused viewing experience.

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Extension stats

By: Benjamin Floyd Rubin

Users: 937

Rating: 4.82

(22)

Version: 1.5.0 (Last updated: 2024-12-06)

Creation date: 2023-11-30

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Host permissions:

https://*.youtube.com/*

Size: 769.02K

Email: be*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 32,141 ▲ 1,097

Other rankings

#758 in Tools ▲ 12 #36 in youtube shorts keyword 36 ▼ 2 #228 in playlist keyword 15 ▼ 15

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Extension summary

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Extension Updated on December 4th, 2024 The extension has been optimized with an updated layout. Playlist page and playlists page will be coming soon.

If you're experiencing any issues or want a new feature, fill out the form below (or just leave a review with your request and I'll respond) Link to form: https://forms.gle/EwpoSyN54HzobyZD6

The Hider chrome extension allows you to:

Easily hide various page elements on YouTube while you browse (such as navigation bar, recommendations, sidebars, live chats and more)
Eliminate distractions and avoid mindlessly clicking through YouTube videos with click-baity thumbnails
Remove unnecessary search results when searching for videos (such as "People also watched", "For You" and more) that distract you from what you're actually searching for

You can toggle the following elements across the Home page, Subscriptions page, Channel page, Search page and Video page:

Navigation bar
Side bar

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps reduce distractions on YouTube and improve focus and productivity.
Allows users to customize what content to hide or show on various parts of YouTube.
Effective at hiding YouTube Shorts and thumbnails, contributing to a better user experience.
Clean design and easy to use interface.

Cons

Occasional issues with thumbnails and options not functioning as intended.
Delay in hiding videos/thumbnails on main pages, requiring manual page reloads at times.
Settings may reset after updates, losing user customizations.

Most mentioned

Blocking or hiding thumbnails and Shorts.
Customization options for different YouTube pages.
Issues with functionality (e.g., three dots not working, settings resetting).

User reviews

Just installed and I still see the "shorts" section on my youtube "subscriptions" page. Edit: By default, nothing is turned off, and it's not clear how to get into the config panel to make changes. I eventually found it though and was able to turn off what I wanted. Only 3 stars because most people are gonna give up when they can't find the config page.

Joseph DeStefano, 2024-12-03

The Professional Noob, 2024-11-24

So far fantastic! Exactly what I've always wanted.

Erik Normann Sannes Aanonsen, 2024-11-20

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.