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hyde — hide the YouTube video player controls icon

hyde — hide the YouTube video player controls

Press Ctrl+M to hide or show the YouTube video player controls.

Users80KCurrent public install base
Rating4.2Store average score
Reviews547Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth0Net users gained this week
7-day growth rate0%Relative weekly velocity
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Version1.3
ManifestV3
Size377KiB
Languages1English (United States)
Published
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When you pause a YouTube video, the player controls don't disappear. That makes it really hard to take a clean screenshot of the video. The controls also block your view, which can get really annoying. Hyde is a simple Chrome extension that allows you to hide or show the video player controls easily.

⭐ Simply use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M to hide the controls or show them again. ⭐

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Store average score4.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text438Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews547Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Nishant Nishant2023年9月7日
3

Did it stop working as of 7-Sep-2023?

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Paul2023年9月4日
5

Been wanting this my whole life.

Language en
shay k2023年8月12日
4

doesnt work on video on google drive with youtube player

Language en
ZeroSick2023年8月6日
5

was recording and taking screenshots of a youtube video, this helped!

Language en
Artisan Dejure2023年8月4日
5

Seems to work. Why isn't this or something like it a default on YouTube? It is very basic UX usability. When I pause something, I want to look at the screen, so why cover it up? I consider this a bug, and this extension the workaround.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Gaurav Tiwari2023年8月3日
3

On firefox, there are options to tweak the behaviour of the extension. There I have it set show mouse in fullscreen only when hovering the mouse. This chrome version isn't customizable at all. Please consider adding it.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Кое Кто2023年7月22日
5

Great extension. But another extension "Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos" can do the same and much more while being open source.

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Matt Jepsen2023年7月15日
5

Simple and works great

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Jake Yu2023年7月2日
5

does it exactly what it says

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1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Đức Phú2023年7月1日
2

Not work for me..

Language en