Youtube Header Hide With Chrome extension icon

Youtube Header Hide With

👥 1K+ users
📦 v1.3
💾 11.14KiB
📅 2026-05-10
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Overview

Reclaim your screen. Hide the YouTube header and replace it with a minimal floating search bar that only appears when you need it.
Tired of the cluttered YouTube header taking up valuable screen space? This extension gives you a distraction-free YouTube experience while keeping every essential feature one hover away.
✨ Key Features
• Header-free YouTube — Reclaim the full screen for video content
• Hover to reveal — Move your mouse to the top of the screen to summon the search bar
• Live search suggestions — Powered by YouTube's native suggestion engine
• Keyboard navigation — Arrow keys, Enter, and Escape all work as expected
• Profile menu — Quick access to account switching, YouTube Studio, Settings, and Sign out
• Auto avatar — Picks up your Google profile picture automatically
• Acrylic blur — Beautiful frosted-glass background with a premium feel
🎯 Perfect for
• Minimalists who want a clean YouTube experience
• Power users who watch a lot of full-screen content
• Anyone tired of UI clutter on YouTube
• Users who love distraction-free interfaces
⌨️ How to Use

Install the extension
Open YouTube — the header disappears automatically
Hover near the top of the screen to reveal the floating search bar
Type your query and press Enter, or use arrow keys to pick a suggestion
Press Escape to dismiss

🔒 Privacy First
No data collection. No tracking. No analytics. The extension only communicates with YouTube and Google's suggestion API to show you live search results — nothing else.
🛠 Permissions Explained
• youtube.com — to inject the floating search bar
• suggestqueries.google.com — to fetch live search suggestions
That's it. No background tracking, no data harvesting, no ads.

Built for people who care about clean design.

Tags

Productivity/tools social-media video productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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