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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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Oskar Raulin2021年12月17日
5

Works perfectly.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
q3fuba2021年12月10日
4

Default Binding "CTRL + M" does not work :/ But after change it manually to "CTRL + SHIFT + M" in chrome://extensions/shortcuts it started working! And "no" i don't use anything else that uses same Shortcut ^^

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Kelvin Nava2021年12月6日
5

thank you sir, very useful tool.

Language en
Urraco Jalpa2021年12月5日
4

The extension work as intended but there's a major problem with Windows: if you have a program or an app opened that starts with "M", Ctrl+M will bring that app on the forefront instead of hiding youtube's video player controls.

Language en
Apo2021年11月20日
5

I love this extension - quick, simple, effective. It appears a Chrome or YouTube update has broken it in the past day or so, though, at least for me? Still rating five stars and just hoping for a fix.

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
manish rawat2021年11月1日
5

good job works great. I do have to press the ctrl + m twice to exit the mode,but that all right.

Language en
scott caldwell2021年10月16日
5

I use this to hide the seek bar when watching starcraft tournament videos. Since seeing the amount of time that's left can spoil it, but they can be very long so I eventually need to pause. Just Ctrl+M after loading the page and bam, I'm safe for the rest of the video! Love it!

Language en
Nishant Nagar2021年10月5日
4

Works with all browsers except Vivaldi.

Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jim Steffes2021年10月3日
5

So simple, but totally improved my watching tutorial experience. I couldn't stand the way those frickin chyrons would block crucial parts of the video.

Language en
polar bear2021年10月3日
5

love the developer so much. This is very very helpful.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful