# Hide items by link or by text selection!

> This extension lets you right-click any link you dislike and hide it forever! Just click "Hide items with this link" and its forever gone! You can also select some text, right click that selection and chose "Hide items with this text"! It's that easy

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hide-items-by-link](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hide-items-by-link)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hide-items-by-link`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ivanca
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 14
- **Rating:** 3.20 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.9
- **Last updated:** 2023-09-25
- **First published:** 2023-09-22
- **Size:** 35 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hide-items-by-link/)

## Description

Quick example of how you may use it: You search for something in Youtube but in the listed results you see one particular channel you dislike, what do? Now you can right click the channel name and click "Hide entries with this link" and voila! That channel will no longer appear in your search results! 

BTW If you change your mind you can always go to the options page and unhide any link you have hide.

## Rankings

- #28,414 — Overall
- #43 — item
- #44 — selection

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `https://*/*`
- `http://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hide-items-by-link)