# Customize and Hide YouTube Player Interface

> Revert the style of the new YouTube Interface (2025) to match the old style (2015-2025). Customize the Interface with Styles to hide any element you want. Toggle the YouTube Player Interface with a simple shortcut.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/hide-youtube-player-interface](https://chrome-stats.com/d/hide-youtube-player-interface)

## Overview

- **ID:** `hide-youtube-player-interface`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** FlyingHairball
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 4
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 2.0.7
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-15
- **First published:** 2025-10-23
- **Size:** 26 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hide-youtube-player-interface/)

## Description

Set up a shortcut to toggle YouTube interface on/off and customize the style to hide any element with a simple button toggle, or change the new style back to what it used to look like in (2015-2025)

## Rankings

- #50,512 — Overall
- #10 — interface
- #62 — video player
- #78 — customize

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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-youtube-player-interface)