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Hide YouTube Thumbnails

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing

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Hide YouTube Thumbnails
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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 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

Latest reviews

Saul Benavides
Great extension! Been using it for a few months now and its been unbelievably helpful in helping me stay focused Thank you Adam!!
Mónica Dyreby
Love it :=) Hope you can get it back and running Adam
John
Stopped working as of today.
Kan Mini (키르)
Noice this extension. Thanks for the 2.6.1 update on GitHub;I've installed it manually.
Daniel Beliaiev
I have installed 2.6.1 from github but setting "Hidden (except when hovered)" is not working
Lize Wolmarans
This worked perfectly for me, but it has suddenly stopped working. Any help or assistance available?
Elias ZB
stopped working for me
Ollie
hidden mode has stop working
Dmitry Gordon
Recently solid color stopped working
15 years ago • 10 month ago • 5 hours ago
Best PICK!!
Drop Beats Gang
Works, would be a nice addition to remove channel icons as well. Thanks much man
Konstantinos Leon Bisdoulis
Works fine but including the video length in the hidden [thumbnails] option would be useful.
Lys
excellent extension, a small bug tho, when I go inot my playlists, it doesn't blurr the thumbnails of the playlists, which is the thumbnal of the first video in the playlist, but when I disable thumbnails altogether it works, it disables all tnails even my playlists'
Arjun
Thnakyou for saving my precious time :) I 'm Looking for more such useful features. Thankyou again .., May God Bless u ..Lots of blessings and love from India
Markas Liaudinas
great addon
Linogiven
Thanks a lot. It works when I want it to work. keep it up!!
Poul Hansen
I just installed this and found a configuration menu inside the app, which let me select to only remove thumbnails from the my playlist overview but still see them in search and the suggestion panel on the right side. Just as I like it. The playlist menu is still formatted with lines of 4 playlists(as youtube formatted it) but the stupid irritating enormous and useless "thumbnails" have gone.
Liz H
Downloaded/added to Chrome, refreshed youtube page, preview thumbnails STILL cover entire video by the end, ruining the video. Doesn't work.
Максим
Thanks a lot, great extension. Are there plans to add a feature to disable user avatars?
RaiCodedThis
Nice Extension ! Using it since May 2024 No BS just straight to the point I like it :)
Marlon Baton
Got fixed by yt
Ys Y
I loved this extension, but it does not work on playlists
Kyuss
Excellent it works
Hdrk N
hey it had been working fine but then it suddenly stopped working... can you check if anything breaks or is there a way for me to debug?
Markus Pettersson
Fantastic!!!
Daniel
Please add option also for youtube shorts
Özgür Akbaba
Great extension.
Paul Lastname
We all like Youtube, well we all have to use it at least, that's why we're here. But we all know how clickbaity and falsified and yea... plain distracting the thumbnails are. So I just did a quick search for something not knowing if it existed, and it works, perfectly, immediately. With no fuss. Thanks. You're a real developer for the people.
Anuj Purushottam
Does the job.
Alemnew Teshome
Thanks for developing this masterpiece it works well
Cornelis Dirk Haupt
A Godsend
Colten Parker
Thanks! Now I don't have to see R34 thumbnails!
Jordan
This extension is alright. It does look odd with nothing there besides the name of the video but I don't like these people with weird thumbnails I'll still rate it 5.
Jordan
This extension is alright. It does look odd with nothing there besides the name of the video but I don't like these people with weird thumbnails I'll still rate it 5.
cao ni ma
Simply beatiful. Thanks to the developers for amazing idea
Saidlaziz To'lqinov
this extension is helping me greatly, and keeps me undistracted by hiding all thumbnails
Talha Muneer
This extension is a gem! Thank you developer for making it!! 💙
Pranab Naik Gaonkar
WORKS GREAT!
Arky Massey
amazing!! helps my productivity so much and keeps me focused
Milutin Ilic
Perfect, would be even more awesome if it would work with the ad blocker i have. Don't know if this information means anything to you Adam but when I'm in blurred mode it wont work but if I'm in hidden mode it does(just not fully for my ad blocker).
Kartikey Bartwal
perfect
A H
Greatly needed extension, I appreciate your efforts :-) As others have pointed out, would be useful to have video lengths still be shown. Btw, info for anyone for whom the extension isn't working: It clashes indeed with other youtube extensions. For me, I couldn't set this on at the same time as Unhooked.
Daniel Rem.
Would be excelent, but the fact that I can no longer see which videos I've watched already or the lenght of videos, It kinda ruined the thing for me.
rudolf haviger
for some reason it doesent work, i have no idea , other youtube extencions work just fine but this one for no aparent reason just doesent .
Rassan
10/10 i love this extension but is there a way where i can also see the length of the video? it would be really helpfull to know thank you for your amazing work
weyouth
thank you so much it is so wonder full
Keval Patel
just leaving a review :)
ky web
I AM SO #$%&#$%&#@$%^#$%^#$%^&#$% ^*$%#^%&*^#$*&#$%^$%&*^# HAPPY I can use youtube again without being misled! BEST EXTENSION EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY PLEASE Adam Jones you are the MF man and are doing "god's work." I even went a step further and used your advice to access the "blur" filter. YOU FKKKKKKKKKKKKIN ROCK
yousef mohamed
very good
Jacob Aisoly
Thank you for the extension, an option to show how long the video will be greatly appreciated, as a student it's kind of a requirement to know how long the lecture is and all ;)