SUMMARY

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

The latest version of Hide YouTube Thumbnails is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 50,000 active users. The initial version was launched on 2019-04-12.

HOW TO INSTALL Hide YouTube Thumbnails FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Hide YouTube Thumbnails CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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