youtublur
Soft blur or solid fill around the YouTube player
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Details
- External ID
- 1272764
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- youtublur
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Productivity, YouTube
Description
youtublur softens the empty area around the YouTube watch player. Choose a soft blur that follows the video’s colors, or a calm theme-matched solid fill. It does not blur thumbnails or suggestions. Free Chrome & Firefox extension, no account, no tracking pitch. About 8 languages.
Enrichment
- Niche
- social video downloaders and scrapers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- custom player background extension for youtube viewers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight browser extension that injects CSS styles and Canvas-based ambient color sampling around the existing YouTube HTML video element.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 268 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #113 of 269 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 269 days after the earliest competitor.
- Maxxmod · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GetYTThumbnail.net · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- MyTube · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Blurly · ph · 2026-10-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- VidVisual · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- BlurImage · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Uncensored Youtube · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- YT Video Downloaders · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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