Hide YouTube Thumbnails

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing

Hide YouTube Thumbnails - Chrome Extension

'Hide YouTube Thumbnails' is a significant Chrome extension that is effective in creating a tranquil and distraction-free YouTube browsing atmosphere. It enables users to at will hide or blur thumbnails hence favorably reducing clickbait and distractions. The extension provides options to turn off the hide feature temporarily, show thumbnails on search results, playlists, channel pages, or on hover, and to display only a solid color. This extension is remarkably helpful for teachers who want to avoid distractions or inappropriate images in class, students or professionals who want to focus more on their work, or anyone who wants to avoid spoilers in their video thumbnails.
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Extension stats

Users: 60,000+
Version: 2.5.0 (Last updated: 2023-10-31)
Creation date: 2019-04-12
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 26.66K

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5.00 (4) 1,188+
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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

Simply hides thumbnails on YouTube to have a more peaceful and less distracting browsing experience. Also useful for avoiding spoilers or inappropriate imagery.

Options available:

  • Temporarily turn off hiding
  • Blur rather than hide thumbnails
  • Show thumbnails on hover
  • Show only solid color
  • Show thumbnails on search results / playlist / watch / subscriptions / channel pages

This extsion could also be descibed as blocking YouTube thumbnails on videos, disabling YouTube thumbnails on videos, blurring YouTube thumbnails on videos. People have found it useful for:

  • Hiding distracting or inappropriate YouTube thumbnails in class when teaching students
  • Hiding YouTube thumbnails to reduce distraction and procrastination when studying or working
  • Hiding YouTube thumbnails to avoid spoilers in the video

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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 hides YouTube thumbnails
  • Enhances focus and productivity
  • Easy to use with immediate results
  • Positive user experience and satisfaction
Cons
  • Does not work on playlists
  • Does not work on YouTube Shorts
  • Issues with recognizing watched videos
  • Some users experienced functionality loss over time
Most mentioned
  • Hides distracting thumbnails
  • Works well overall
  • Request for additional features (like support for playlists and Shorts)
User reviews
Got fixed by yt
by Marlon Baton, 2024-12-15

by Denis Sleptsov, 2024-12-15

it does not work on playlists and shorts, but overall very good
by Ziad Nahlawi, 2024-11-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hide YouTube Thumbnails requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hide YouTube Thumbnails has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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