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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)
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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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Haze Clarke2023年10月23日
5

Loved the simplicity. For everyone who have trouble when installing the plugin but doesn't work. Check Keyboard Shortcuts in Extensions. It may have not been automatically set

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
zhyako xalid2023年10月22日
5

If don't if the creator of the extension might ever read this. But Thank you very much dude. Simple and free to use. Does what it's intended for. I also really love reddit, I found this extention through reddit. But for me the problem of finding it was I did not know what those things ( youtube control player ) called, I did not even know what to search for. So I used a terminology I remembered from 3 years ago, HUD on GTAV5. So maybe something could be done so that people can find it more easily? Huge thanks again dude little update: I think you would get a ton more downloads if you make it easier for people to find your extension, maybe advertise it on youtube itself or show people how valuable it is as when someones watches lyrics, a movie, CS50 course in my situation, I would want to take a snipp, a screen shot without the youtube player controls. And a ton of other not-mentioned benefits. Good luck for everyone reading my review. P.S. I also wanted to know how much time was invested into making this extension

Version 1.1Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Tank Evans2023年10月16日
5

I love using this extension to watch sporting events/esports, as video duration often spoils the result! It works as intended, however would it be possible to include options to show the volume controls, options, etc.? Basically, an option to hide only the video progress bar.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Essam Qsous2023年10月10日
5

Amazing.....Great Work Developer's....I Love It

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
無塵2023年10月7日
3

暫停 開始 快速轉 都會跑出東西出來 能順便把這個休掉嗎

Language zh
Harley2023年10月6日
3

used to work fine but recently stopped working on operagx which is a huge shame because this was very helpful :(

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Daniel Bostic2023年10月2日
1

DO NOT INSTALL!!!!! this bad programm just caused a bug when watching a youtube video the ui would just start flickering like crazy...it took me a while to figure out what the hell was causing it.

Language en
1 helpful · 1 not helpful
Lucas Souza2023年9月21日
5

On Brave the keybinding was not set by default, but I manged to setup.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jim Au2023年9月11日
1

I just installed to Chrome and Brave on Mac. Both are not working. When press ctrl+M, it just worked like a play and pause action. Video control did not disappeared at all. So disappointed. But I am not sure why it is working for others. Note: Both my Chrome and Brave were updated to latest version before I installed Hyde.

Language en
5 helpful · 1 not helpful
noob 3162023年9月11日
5

I absolutely love this extension. Worked great, and definitely useful. The only issue I've had recently is with the new Opera GX update, it no longer works on it. Opera GX is the browser I use, so this is unfortunate, but I'll still rate it 5 stars as this seems to only be an issue in Opera GX and no other browser.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful