YouTube Hide Watched
Hide Watched Videos
YouTube's algorithm loves showing you the same videos you have already watched. YouTube Hide Watched takes them out of the way - and lets you decide how. Each video can be shown normally, dimmed to a whisper, or hidden outright, and you set that independently for the home page, subscriptions, channel pages, the watch-page sidebar, trending, and playlists, with Shorts handled on their own. A watch threshold decides how much of a video counts as watched, an eye icon on any thumbnail hides or dims that one video on the spot, and everything you have hidden by hand lives in a manager page you can search, filter, page through, and export or import as a backup. It speaks twelve languages, follows your system's light or dark theme, and keeps every setting in your own browser - nothing is sent anywhere.
Highlights
How it Works
Install from Chrome Web Store
One-click install. No account and no sign-up, and the only site it can touch is YouTube.
Set Your Modes
Pick show, dim, or hide for each YouTube section, set the watch threshold, and decide how Shorts behave.
Browse and Fine-Tune
Watched videos fade or disappear as you browse, and the eye icon on any thumbnail overrides the rule for that one video.
Features
Show, Dim, or Hide
Three modes instead of one switch. Dim a watched video to a whisper when you still want to see it is there, or remove it from the page entirely.
Per-Section Settings
Home, subscriptions, channel pages, the watch-page sidebar, trending, and playlists each get their own mode - hide on home, dim in subscriptions, leave playlists alone.
Adjustable Watch Threshold
Decide how much of a video counts as watched, anywhere from 0 to 100 percent, so a clip you sampled for ten seconds does not vanish.
Per-Video Control
An eye icon on any thumbnail hides or dims that single video instantly, no page reload, and the choice sticks across sessions.
Hidden Videos Manager
A dedicated page listing everything you hid by hand - search by title, filter by state, page through it, jump back to any video, or restore it. Export and import the whole list as a backup.
Shorts, Handled Separately
Shorts get their own controls, so you can clear them out of the feed without touching how regular videos behave.
Yours, and Local
Twelve languages and a light or dark theme that follows your system. Settings and hidden videos live in your browser's own storage - no accounts, no telemetry, nothing sent to a server.
Use Cases
Declutter Your Feed
Stop seeing the same recommended videos you've already watched. Every tile on your homepage becomes a new discovery.
Find New Content Faster
Hide watched videos in subscriptions while only dimming them on channel pages, so you can still see a creator's full back catalogue.
Bury What You Never Want
Hide a specific video by hand with the eye icon, and manage everything you have buried from one searchable page.
Who it's For
YouTube power users, content enthusiasts, and anyone frustrated by YouTube's tendency to resurface already-watched videos in recommendations and search results.
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It reads YouTube's own progress indicator on each video. You can set the watch threshold from 0 to 100 percent, so you decide how much of a video counts as watched before the extension acts on it.
There are three modes: show the video normally, dim it so it is still there but out of the way, or hide it completely. You pick the mode per YouTube section.
Yes. The home page, subscriptions, channel pages, the watch-page sidebar, trending, and playlists each carry their own setting, and Shorts are controlled separately from regular videos.
Yes. An eye icon on any thumbnail hides or dims that single video instantly, and everything you hide by hand appears in a manager page where you can search it, filter by state, restore a video, or export the list as a backup.
No. Your settings and your hidden-video list are kept in your browser's own storage. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no analytics or telemetry, and the extension can only run on YouTube.
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