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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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Mahdy Fouad2021年9月30日
5

A LIFESAVER 5/5 p.s. you guys need to activate/deactivate it by (ctrl+m) or whatever you want. made mine (alt+x) for developer blease can make another version with only a seek bar it will be awesome and i will leave it as default.. thanks

Version 1.3Language en
Anthony Muchina2021年9月21日
1

This is the only extension I've ever installed that doesn't work. Restarting the computer did not help either. Useless.

Language en
0 helpful · 1 not helpful
Boris Mekhannikov2021年9月17日
5

CTRL+M to hide YT video controls on Chrome, Priceless for video lectures. Wish to expand it to other browsers. Great job, guys.

Language en
Scaletta2021年9月4日
5

This is actually so useful, its so simple yet so useful extension. Thanks

Language en
cnapoli2021年8月26日
4

On a Mac, you have to press command+M, not control+M to make the display go away.

Language en
jmn sqac2021年8月25日
5

Its very good extension. just hope can change default shortcut key to my own shortcut. because ctrl+m is not best shortcut for me.

Language en
4 helpful · 0 not helpful
plantabi plantabi2021年8月10日
2

It only hides the bar, but does not hide the most annoying control (the giant play button at the center)...

Language en
2 helpful · 1 not helpful
Brad Loflin2021年8月9日
5

Work perfectly for me in Windows 10 Build 19042. This is so helpful for detailed screens for tutorials. Thanks so much. Why in the world would this not be the default behavior for Youtube (hide controls after pause X seconds or mouse off)? I think it is for mobile.

Language en
Webcore Interactive2021年8月3日
1

No dice. Ctrl+m does nothing.

Language en
Sasin Stea2021年8月2日
5

Works perfectly!!! Thanks very much. Could you support embedded youtube players in other websites as well?

Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful