Issue #2671 - Remove the thumbnail icon the front page

otutukingsley commented 1 week ago

This PR addresses this issue #2671. This PR introduces a feature to hide YouTube thumbnails on the homepage and elsewhere using dynamically injected CSS. The solution ensures that thumbnails are hidden without modifying the underlying structure of YouTube’s DOM.

Testing Locally

Check into this branch locally
Navigate to chrome://extensions/
In the top right cornet, toggle developer mode on.
In the top left, click on the Load unpacked button
Select the root folder where the manifest.json file leaves
This should add the extension locally to your browser
Navigate to https://www.youtube.com, confirm that the thumbnails for the front page videos are hidden.
Look at the snippet below to confirm the change.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8503bc0c-7405-4304-9323-6e417f63d6e6

ImprovedTube commented 1 week ago

Welcome and thank you so much!! @otutukingsley

[x] name in the locales (at least the english one)
[x] button in our menu skeleton

structure is always increasing in relevance, especially for simple features (we are approaching 200.) Compare: https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/2251

otutukingsley commented 1 week ago

Welcome and thank you so much!! @otutukingsley

[ ] name in the locales (at least the english one)

[ ] button in our menu skeleton

structure is always increasing in relevance especially for simple features (we are approaching 200.) Compare: #2251

@ImprovedTube I will make the update and open the PR for your review again.

otutukingsley commented 1 week ago

@ImprovedTube I have made the changes, can you please review it again? thank you!

ImprovedTube commented 3 days ago

thank you @otutukingsley! sorry for my delay

code-charity / youtube

Issue #2671 - Remove the thumbnail icon the front page #2676

Testing Locally