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Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing
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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 thumbnails on search results / playlist / watch 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
Latest reviews
- (2025-08-03) Caleb: While this extension works everywhere else, it used to hide thumbnails in recommended videos when watching a video, one day, it stopped working there.
- (2023-06-03) Someone: Works Great! Helps a lot cutting out all of the fkn distractions
Statistics
Installs
1,499
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Rating
4.6 (5 votes)
Last update / version
2025-08-31 / 2.6.2
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