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.

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Extension stats

By: krzysiek.kurczewski

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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:

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Size: 28.34K

Email: kr*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 32106 ▼ 3

Other rankings

#181 in Just for Fun ▼ 1 #153 in configure keyword 17 ▼ 1

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

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

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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

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.