v1.4.1

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Changes

• Hide AI summaries in Search results on desktop
• Remove pink from the page progress bar on desktop
• Fixed hiding "Search with your voice" on mobile
• Fixed hiding the ad slot immediately below video comments on mobile
• Hide new grid format for Shorts in Home on mobile
• Fixed hiding suggested sections for logged-out users in Home on mobile

Availability

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v1.4.0

Changes

New option: hideAI ( default: true)

• Hide the AI Summary under videos

hideVideoMetadata:

• Hide the Music block on mobile

hideChat:

• Hide the new "Live chat replay" panel in video metadata
• Hide the new element creating space for the chat panel in theater mode

hideMixes:

• Fixed hiding Mixes in Search results and Related videos on desktop

Availability

This version is available in the following extension stores:

v1.3.1

Changes

• Removed pink from thumbnail progress bars on mobile
• Fixed hiding Mixes on desktop
• Fixed sizing of playlist thumbnails in search results on desktop

v1.3.0

Changes

• Added an option to remove the new pink fade from the desktop progress bar
• Hiding watched videos no longer applies to Search results

v1.2.4

Changes

• Fixed layout issues in Home and Subscriptions on desktop when videos are hidden (due to YouTube's new grid implementation)
• Removed the fillGaps option for desktop, as it's no longer needed with YouTube's new grid implementation

hideSuggestedSections:

• Fixed Shorts being hidden in Home
• Fixed Recommended playlists not being hidden when viewing a Playlist

v1.2.3

Changes

• Fixed skipping ads on mobile

v1.2.2

Changes

• Fixed hiding watched videos, streams and VODs, and hidden channels in Home and Subscriptions on desktop (again)
• Fixed skipping ads

v1.2.2

Changes

• Fixed hiding watched videos, streams and VODs, and hidden channels in Home and Subscriptions on desktop

v1.2.0

Changes

New options for desktop YouTube:

• Full size theater mode
• Hide Miniplayer button
• Search thumbnail size, which by default reverts the recent size increase YouTube made to search result thumbnails
• Minimum grid items per row, for Home and Subscriptions

hideSuggestedSections:

• Now also hides Recommended videos and Recommended playlists when viewing a (non-Watch Later) playlist

Screenshots

Full size theater mode

Before	After

Search thumbnail size

Large (YouTube default)	Medium (Control Panel default)	Small

Minimum grid items per row in Home and Subscriptions

e.g. minimum of 5 items per row:

v1.1.0

Changes

• Fixed Firefox permission issues (the extension was disabled by default after install on all platforms, it had to be manually enabled every time in Firefox for Android, and the Permissions page was completely blank in Firefox for Android so permissions couldn't be granted) by using Manifest Version 2 instead for the Firefox version
• Improved the Japanese translation (thanks @Catastravia)
• Fixed disconnectObservers() only disconnecting page observers

hideShareThanksClip:

• Added a new option to hide the Share/Thanks/Clip buttons under a video (not enabled by default)

hideChannels:

• You can now hide a channel while watching one of its videos - a "Hide channel" item is added to the video's ⋯ menu
• This becomes an "Unhide channel" menu item if the channel is already hidden

hideOpenApp:

• Fixed hiding "Open App" links when using YouTube in Japanese

hideSponsored:

• Fixed related videos being hidden in the mobile version at tablet sizes when they contained an ad