Turns every YouTube thumbnail into a plain black box and removes Shorts from the sidebar, feeds and search. You pick videos by their titles, not by the loudest picture.
- Price
- Free
- Version
- 2.0.0
- Works on
- youtube.com
- Data collected
- None
What it does
Black thumbnails
Every thumbnail on home, search, subscriptions, the sidebar, playlists, channel pages, the player poster and end screens becomes a black box. Titles, durations and progress bars stay visible, and animated hover previews are turned off.
No Shorts
Removes the Shorts entry from the sidebar, Shorts shelves on home, subscriptions, search and watch pages, single Shorts in feeds, the Shorts tab on channels and the Shorts search filter.
Shorts open as normal videos
A /shorts/ link loads as a regular video with the normal player, so there is no endless swipe feed to fall into.
Two switches, instant changes
Turn either feature on or off from the toolbar popup. Open YouTube tabs update right away, no reload needed.
Permissions
storage
Remembers your two on/off switches in Chrome's own settings sync. Nothing else is saved.
Site access
Runs only on youtube.com. It changes how pages look and never reads, sends or stores what you watch. Read the privacy policy.