Hide video duration on YouTube by Denis icon

Hide video duration on YouTube by Denis

by Denis Sokolov

v1.0.5 Updated Nov 3, 2025 1.78MiB
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★ 3.92
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Description

Hide the duration of YouTube videos to prevent spoiling the ending. In particular, a Let’s Play video of a rogue-like coming to an end suggests the player will make a crucial mistake soon. With this extension a duration can be hidden at the start of a video manually, and also all videos matching a particular title can have their durations hidden automatically.
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Reviews (6 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-31
Victoria Taylor

Used to work perfectly now every time I click the bar it switches to showing how much time is left in the video. Makes this extension absolutely useless...

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Alex Ertl

In the recent update, the "time" now toggles back and forth between elapsed time and time remaining whenever ANY button is clicked (fast-forward, rewind, or the time element itself), which defeats the entire purpose of this extension. This is otherwise a 5-star extension, please fix this as soon as possible and I will update my rating. For dev: Currently watching a video with duration of 3:08:49 When page loads, works as intended. watched for a little over an hour then paused: <span class="ytp-time-current">1:07:24</span> Clicked button to rewind 10s, it now shows remaining time: <span class="ytp-time-current">-2:01:35</span>

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-03
pat j

can't block duration until you've already opened the video

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-26
ian mills

Doesn't work on youtube

★★☆☆☆2025-10-27
Jordan S

I would have given this a 5 star review weeks ago, but similar to another reviewer there's now an issue where navigating with the controls now starts showing the remaining time left, which makes this extension completely useless :(

★★☆☆☆2024-11-04
Anthony Barbier

It's true that it won't hide the duration until after the video is opened (Even with "Hide automatically" rules set), i.e search results and suggestions will still show durations.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension declarativeContent Can show the extension icon based on page content scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 1.0.5
Updated Nov 3, 2025
Size 1.78MiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026