Slop Blocker: Remove YouTube Thumbnails

Replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails with real 720p HD footage stills, and block channels anywhere on YouTube with 1 click.

Tired of exaggerated faces, misleading red circles, and sensational clickbait thumbnails flooding your YouTube feed? Slop Blocker restores calm and sanity to your video browsing. It automatically swaps sensational custom YouTube thumbnails with authentic, crisp 720p HD video stills captured directly from the actual footage — so you see what the video is actually about before clicking. Plus, easily block unwanted channels across all of YouTube with a single click. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ Real HD Footage Stills (De-Clickbait) • Automatically replaces misleading thumbnails with clean 720p HD stills from the video itself. • Choose your preferred timestamp snapshot: - Start (25% into video) - Middle (50% into video — default) - End (75% into video) • Seamless resolution fallback: 720p HD (maxres) ➔ 480p SD ➔ 360p HQ. 🚫 1-Click Universal Channel Blocker • Hover over any video card on Search, Watch Recommendations, Home Feed, or Channel pages to reveal the "Block Channel" button. • Instantly wipes that creator's content across all surfaces: - YouTube Search results - Watch page right sidebar recommendations - Home feed and subscriptions - Creator shelves, playlists, and carousels - Creator profile pages (shows a blocked banner and hides videos) 🎯 Clean & Distraction-Free UI • Buttons only appear when you hover over a video card — YouTube stays completely clean, uncluttered, and native. • Dedicated "✕ Block Channel" button on creator profile headers next to Subscribe. • Manage and unblock channels anytime from the extension popup, or bulk-add handles. 🔒 100% Client-Side Privacy Guarantee • Zero telemetry, zero analytics, zero data collection. • Your viewing habits, search queries, and blocked lists NEVER leave your device. • Settings sync securely using native browser storage (chrome.storage.sync). ⚡ Ultra-Lightweight & Fast • Zero heavy libraries or tracking scripts. • Instant DOM processing using hardware-accelerated requestAnimationFrame debouncing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ HOW TO USE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install Slop Blocker and open YouTube. 2. Notice all thumbnails now show actual frame stills from the video footage. 3. Hover over any video card to reveal the red "Block Channel" button. Click it to eliminate that creator everywhere. 4. Click the extension icon in your toolbar anytime to adjust frame positions (25%, 50%, 75%) or manage your blocked channels.