extension ExtPose

Hide YouTube Thumbnails

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phmcfcbljjdlomoipaffekhgfnpndbef-

Description from extension meta

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing

Image from store Hide YouTube Thumbnails
Description from store 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

  • (2025-06-27) Drop Beats Gang: Works, would be a nice addition to remove channel icons as well. Thanks much man
  • (2025-06-21) Konstantinos Leon Bisdoulis: Works fine but including the video length in the hidden [thumbnails] option would be useful.
  • (2025-06-20) 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'
  • (2025-06-04) 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
  • (2025-05-14) Markas Liaudinas: great addon
  • (2025-03-31) Linogiven: Thanks a lot. It works when I want it to work. keep it up!!
  • (2025-03-14) 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.
  • (2025-02-10) Liz H: Downloaded/added to Chrome, refreshed youtube page, preview thumbnails STILL cover entire video by the end, ruining the video. Doesn't work.
  • (2025-01-12) Максим: Thanks a lot, great extension. Are there plans to add a feature to disable user avatars?
  • (2024-12-23) RaiCodedThis: Nice Extension ! Using it since May 2024 No BS just straight to the point I like it :)
  • (2024-12-15) Marlon Baton: Got fixed by yt
  • (2024-12-03) Ys Y: I loved this extension, but it does not work on playlists
  • (2024-11-26) Kyuss: Excellent it works
  • (2024-11-04) 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?
  • (2024-10-21) Markus Pettersson: Fantastic!!!
  • (2024-09-30) Daniel: Please add option also for youtube shorts
  • (2024-09-27) Özgür Akbaba: Great extension.
  • (2024-08-15) 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.
  • (2024-07-25) Anuj Purushottam: Does the job.
  • (2024-06-25) Alemnew Teshome: Thanks for developing this masterpiece it works well
  • (2024-06-18) Cornelis Dirk Haupt: A Godsend
  • (2024-05-30) Colten Parker: Thanks! Now I don't have to see R34 thumbnails!
  • (2024-04-25) 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.
  • (2024-04-25) 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.
  • (2024-04-13) cao ni ma: Simply beatiful. Thanks to the developers for amazing idea
  • (2024-04-07) Saidlaziz To'lqinov: this extension is helping me greatly, and keeps me undistracted by hiding all thumbnails
  • (2024-04-04) Talha Muneer: This extension is a gem! Thank you developer for making it!! 💙
  • (2024-03-28) Pranab Naik Gaonkar: WORKS GREAT!
  • (2024-03-28) Arky Massey: amazing!! helps my productivity so much and keeps me focused
  • (2024-03-11) 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).
  • (2024-02-13) Kartikey Bartwal: perfect
  • (2024-02-12) 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.
  • (2024-02-05) 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.
  • (2024-01-29) 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 .
  • (2024-01-22) 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
  • (2024-01-19) weyouth: thank you so much it is so wonder full
  • (2024-01-18) Keval Patel: just leaving a review :)
  • (2024-01-17) 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
  • (2023-12-28) yousef mohamed: very good
  • (2023-12-13) 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 ;)
  • (2023-12-11) Suryansh: thank you for making this It helps me prevent from distraction
  • (2023-12-03) Oussama Hsirina: No comment
  • (2023-11-29) Mekan: Useful in making the platform far less over-stimulating. It's a slight difference when using the extension but is so helpful for my experience!
  • (2023-11-25) Anup Wagla: F***ING LOVE THIS EXTENSION WOW LESS DISTRACTION FROM NOW ON YES
  • (2023-11-24) Purpose Porpoise: I don't usually rate things, but this simple extension DESERVES a positive rating because it gives me more control over my experience on YouTube.
  • (2023-11-09) Henry Ozolins: I like it
  • (2023-10-30) Roman M: Simple, but powerful extension. Thanks for sharing it. Thumbnails make it so easy to fall down the YouTube rabbit hole. Don't get me started on the prevalent annoying face making trend. ;-)
  • (2023-10-30) Roman M: Simple, but powerful extension. Thanks for sharing it. Thumbnails make it so easy to fall down the YouTube rabbit hole. Don't get me started on the prevalent annoying face making trend. ;-)
  • (2023-10-19) Lothnar: I wouldn't mind an option to just stop the thumbnail playing and I don't mean the inline nonsense that pops out, I mean the actual thumbnail from playing.
  • (2023-10-19) Lothnar: I wouldn't mind an option to just stop the thumbnail playing and I don't mean the inline nonsense that pops out, I mean the actual thumbnail from playing.

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30,000 history
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Rating
4.7886 (123 votes)
Last update / version
2025-06-17 / 2.5.5
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