Hide Youtube Thumbnails

👥 50K+ users

📦 v2.6.3

💾 860KiB

📅 2026-02-18

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Blocks distracting and potentially spoiler-filled thumbnails from appearing on YouTube videos, allowing for a more peaceful browsing experience. This extension is particularly useful for students, workers, and anyone looking to minimize distractions while studying or working online. With customizable options available, users can tailor the extension's behavior to suit their specific needs.

Overview

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