Hide YouTube Thumbnails

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing
What is Hide YouTube Thumbnails?
Hide YouTube Thumbnails is an Edge add-on that allows you to hide or blur thumbnails on YouTube videos for a more peaceful and less distracting browsing experience. It also helps in avoiding spoilers or inappropriate imagery. With options to temporarily turn off hiding, blur thumbnails, or show thumbnails on hover, this add-on is useful for students, professionals, and anyone looking to reduce distraction and procrastination while studying or working.

Add-on stats

Users: 1,064
Rating: 5.00 (4)
Version: 2.5.0 (Last updated: 2023-10-30)
Creation date: 2023-01-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 25.20K
URLs: Website

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Add-on summary

Analyze keywords

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

User reviews

Awesome! exactly what I was looking for.
by Tubby, 2024-09-08

Works Great! Helps a lot cutting out all of the fkn distractions
by Someone, 2023-06-03
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Hide YouTube Thumbnails requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Hide YouTube Thumbnails has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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