Hide YouTube Thumbnails

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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing

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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

Saul Benavides 2025-10-06

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 2025-08-31

Love it :=) Hope you can get it back and running Adam

John 2025-08-29

Stopped working as of today.

Kan Mini (키르) 2025-08-29

Noice this extension. Thanks for the 2.6.1 update on GitHub;I've installed it manually.

Daniel Beliaiev 2025-08-29

I have installed 2.6.1 from github but setting "Hidden (except when hovered)" is not working

Lize Wolmarans 2025-08-29

This worked perfectly for me, but it has suddenly stopped working. Any help or assistance available?

Elias ZB 2025-08-28

stopped working for me

Ollie 2025-08-28

hidden mode has stop working

Dmitry Gordon 2025-08-19

Recently solid color stopped working

15 years ago • 10 month ago • 5 hours ago 2025-07-29

Best PICK!!

Drop Beats Gang 2025-06-27

Works, would be a nice addition to remove channel icons as well. Thanks much man

Konstantinos Leon Bisdoulis 2025-06-21

Works fine but including the video length in the hidden [thumbnails] option would be useful.

Lys 2025-06-20

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 2025-06-04

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 2025-05-14

great addon

Linogiven 2025-03-31

Thanks a lot. It works when I want it to work. keep it up!!

Poul Hansen 2025-03-14

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 2025-02-10

Downloaded/added to Chrome, refreshed youtube page, preview thumbnails STILL cover entire video by the end, ruining the video. Doesn't work.

Максим 2025-01-12

Thanks a lot, great extension. Are there plans to add a feature to disable user avatars?

RaiCodedThis 2024-12-23

Nice Extension ! Using it since May 2024 No BS just straight to the point I like it :)

Marlon Baton 2024-12-15

Got fixed by yt

Ys Y 2024-12-03

I loved this extension, but it does not work on playlists

Kyuss 2024-11-26

Excellent it works

Hdrk N 2024-11-04

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 2024-10-21

Fantastic!!!

Daniel 2024-09-30

Please add option also for youtube shorts

Özgür Akbaba 2024-09-27

Great extension.

Paul Lastname 2024-08-15

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 2024-07-25

Does the job.

Alemnew Teshome 2024-06-25

Thanks for developing this masterpiece it works well

Cornelis Dirk Haupt 2024-06-18

A Godsend

Colten Parker 2024-05-30

Thanks! Now I don't have to see R34 thumbnails!

Jordan 2024-04-25

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 2024-04-25

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 2024-04-13

Simply beatiful. Thanks to the developers for amazing idea

Saidlaziz To'lqinov 2024-04-07

this extension is helping me greatly, and keeps me undistracted by hiding all thumbnails

Talha Muneer 2024-04-04

This extension is a gem! Thank you developer for making it!! 💙

Pranab Naik Gaonkar 2024-03-28

WORKS GREAT!

Arky Massey 2024-03-28

amazing!! helps my productivity so much and keeps me focused

Milutin Ilic 2024-03-11

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 2024-02-13

perfect

A H 2024-02-12

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. 2024-02-05

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 2024-01-29

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 2024-01-22

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 2024-01-19

thank you so much it is so wonder full

Keval Patel 2024-01-18

just leaving a review :)

ky web 2024-01-17

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 2023-12-28

very good

Jacob Aisoly 2023-12-13

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 ;)

Statistics

Installs
50,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Rating
4.74 (130 votes)
Last update
2025-09-01
Version 2.6.2
Languages