Blurred thumbnails

Blur thumbnails on YT page for whatever reason
What is Blurred thumbnails?
Blurred thumbnails is a handy Chrome extension that allows you to selectively blur thumbnails on YouTube videos. With a configurable whitelist and blacklist, as well as the ability to filter by channel name and keywords in video titles, you can customize the blurring to suit your preferences and protect your viewing experience.

Extension stats

Users: 768 ▲ 10
Rating: 4.75 (12)
Version: 1.5.4 (Last updated: 2024-07-26)
Creation date: 2023-03-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 28.34K

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Extension summary

Extension allows to selectively blur thumbnails on Youtube videos.

Possible configuration:

  • Whitelist & blacklist
  • Channel name
  • Keywords in video title

How to configure:

  • Click extension icon to open options
  • Click on tags to edit existing keywords
  • Press enter to add new keywords
  • For channels use plain names (including spaces)
  • Use: ".*" as a keyword to match all patterns
  • Use "Test phrase" input on bottom to check which tags will apply for given plain text

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Effectively blurs YouTube thumbnails
  • Allows blacklisting of channels and keywords
  • User-friendly and works out of the box
  • Provides a way to avoid spoilers from thumbnails
Cons
  • Does not blur thumbnails on the homepage for some users
  • Confusing settings interface for adding channels to the blacklist
  • Currently lacks an on/off button for blurring
  • Buggy when loading new videos
Most mentioned
  • Blur functionality
  • Blacklisting channels/keywords
  • Desire for additional features/customizations
  • Issues with homepage blurring
Recent reviews
Great extension! It does the job
by Muhluri Nkuna, 2024-09-06

This is beautiful. Any chance you could add a feature that allows users to manually blur specific video thumbnails on YouTube? This could be integrated as a menu item within the "Three Dot" menu underneath each video or as a standalone icon/menu on top of the thumbnails. This would be useful for cases where I generally don't mind a content creator's thumbnails but find a particular one obnoxious or ugly and want to hide it.
by Chris Yerkes, 2024-07-04

Hi, it works great but how do i change my settings? I forgot to add some channels to my blacklist but i dont know where to change it.
by Thuta Lynn Htet, 2024-03-16
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Blurred thumbnails is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Blurred thumbnails has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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