YouTube Tips – How to Prevent Text on Pause in Full Screen Mode

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When in full screen mode and pausing YouTube the player usually display some text (Likely related to other content) across the top of the viewer. Example screenshot included. This prevents seeing details related to the content. Anyone know how to block / disable this? Example pasted below:

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Best Answer

You can open the developer tools (even in full screen mode), search for a div with those exact classes: ytp-chrome-top ytp-share-button-visible - and delete it.

It's the top row of the YouTube video, including the title and buttons. If you only wish to delete the title - match the div with the class ytp-title-text.

A more clever way, would be to create a user script that delete this div, or hides it when in full screen (or any other time you want), it should be rather easy.

Demonstration GIF (too big to attach here)

Simple "scripts"

  • Run it from the DevTools console:
    It will work upon loading - no need go to full screen first.

    $('div.ytp-chrome-top.ytp-share-button-visible').remove()

    OR

    document.getElementsByClassName('ytp-chrome-top ytp-share-button-visible')[0].remove()

  • Use this as a bookmarklet to toggle the visibility of the video title bar:

    $('div.ytp-chrome-top.ytp-share-button-visible').hidden = !$('div.ytp-chrome-top.ytp-share-button-visible').hidden;
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