Video Mouse Hider
Hides your mouse when idle over videos.
What is Video Mouse Hider?
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Summary
This extension hides your mouse when idle over videos. YouTube™ and HBO Max and others have this built-in already.
Supported Websites: ✔ Hulu ✔ Vimeo ✔ Dailymotion ✔ and many more
You can also set a keyboard shortcut to manually hide the cursor (hovering over video or fullscreen not required).
Contact me if there's a specific website you'd like me to add specific timeout settings for. By default the idle time is set to 2 seconds after the last mouse movement. YouTube, for example, has a 4 second idle time so that the mouse hides when for the player interface gets hidden too.
⚠️ Troubleshooting and Notes: ▸ It appears that Chrome extensions that hide the mouse cursor require the mouse to be moved after the pages loads. I haven't found a way around this. ▸ Some website video players resist cursor hiding. I found a work-around for fullscreen videos but I'm not aware of a solution when videos are not fullscreen.
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Risk impact
Video Mouse Hider is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Video Mouse Hider has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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