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Hide YouTube Thumbnails by domdomegg

Hide YouTube Thumbnails for less clickbaity browsing

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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 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
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Required permissions:

  • Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
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Version
2.5.5
Size
871.13 KB
Last updated
2 months ago (Jun 15, 2025)
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License
MIT License
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