Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube

Enhance focus on YouTube by hiding distractions like thumbnails, shorts, irrelevant results, live chats, and recommendations.

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By: Benjamin Floyd Rubin

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Users: 131 ▲ 1

Rating: 5.00 (10)

Version: 1.2.1 (Last updated: 2024-06-06)

Creation date: 2023-11-30

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

tabs
storage

Host permissions:

https://*.youtube.com/*

Size: 748.54K

Email: be*****@gmail.com

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 60336 ▲ 17

Other rankings

#1846 in Tools ▼ 192 #76 in youtube shorts keyword 35 ▼ 4 #168 in navigation keyword 4 ▼ 7

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The Hider chrome extension allows you to:

Easily hide various page elements on YouTube while you browse (such as navigation bar, recommendations, sidebars, live chats and more)
Eliminate distractions and avoid mindlessly clicking through YouTube videos with click-baity thumbnails
Remove unnecessary search results when searching for videos (such as "People also watched", "For You" and more) that distract you from what you're actually searching for

You can toggle the following elements: Home Page:

Navigation bar
Side bar
All videos
Shorts
Thumbnails

User reviews

As of today I am seeing shorts on video pages again even though I have the ext set to block them. None on the home feed as of yet. I am also curious if you can force the comments back under the video rather than on the right side of the screen? Thanks for updating and getting rid of the Playables. Great work!!!!

Eli Johnson, 2024-06-04

OK, a new type of junk thumbs have shown up called "YouTube Playables." Hope these can be filtered out too. Anyway, great app...keep up the good work.

Eli Johnson, 2024-05-24

I can Finally hide those shorts. is there a way to hide breaking news section, it's annoying every time I open YouTube I manually close the breaking news section.

Dimas Aktan, 2024-05-17

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Safety

Risk impact

Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Hide Thumbnails, Shorts, and more on YouTube if you trust the publisher.