Hide YouTube Thumbnails - Thumbless

Hide YouTube Thumbnails – hide, blur or recolor them for calmer, clickbait-free browsing. Video length stays visible.

Hide YouTube Thumbnails and choose videos by their title and length instead of the loudest picture on the page. Thumbless replaces Hide YouTube thumbnails with a calm placeholder, a blur or a solid color. Titles, channel names and the video length stay exactly where they were, so YouTube still works the way you know it. You just stop being pulled in by clickbait. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Video length stays visible. Only the thumbnail image is hidden. Duration, live and progress badges are never covered, so a 10-minute video never gets mixed up with a 2-hour one. - YouTube Music is your call. Album art is left alone by default. Turn hiding on for YouTube Music right from the popup if you want it. - Every corner of YouTube. Home, search results, the sidebar next to a video, end screens, the player cover, subscriptions, channel pages, playlists, Mixes, Shorts and YouTube Playables. - Channels you trust. Add a channel to your allowlist and its thumbnails always show. On a video or channel page it takes one click in the popup. Hide YouTube Thumbnails - FEATURES - Three styles: striped placeholder, adjustable blur, or any solid color - Choose which pages to hide thumbnails on, and whether Shorts are included - Show thumbnails for 15 minutes, then hiding turns back on by itself - Optional reveal on hover, to peek at a single thumbnail - Blocks hover video previews, which would otherwise give away what you hid - Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+T turns hiding on or off (changeable) - Toolbar icon is red while hiding is on, gray when it's off - Works with YouTube's light and dark themes - Settings in 55 languages, with a language picker - "Settings saved" confirmation whenever you change something Hide YouTube Thumbnails - WHO IT'S FOR - Studying or working: fewer eye-catching detours when you came for one video - Teaching: show YouTube on a classroom projector without a wall of unpredictable images - Avoiding spoilers: thumbnails often show the ending, titles usually don't - Sensitive to images: avoid frightening or upsetting pictures, from phobias to graphic news PRIVACY Thumbless collects no data. There is no account, no analytics and no tracking, and the extension makes no network requests. Your settings are stored in your own Chrome profile. It only runs on youtube.com and music.youtube.com. OPEN SOURCE Free, with no paid features, and released under the MIT License. The source code is on GitHub. Thumbless is not affiliated with YouTube or Google. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC.