Hide That! chrome extension

What is Hide That!?

Hide That! is a productivity chrome extension. it's a free extension , it has 4,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 4.79 from 28 rated user, last update is 735 days ago.

What’s new in version 3.5.0?

                The primary feature of this extension allows users to hide any element on the page with a simple right-click menu action.

Advanced features on the Options page also allows the user to automatically close invasive popup windows, as well as automatically hide selected elements when the page is loading. 

Several other customizable settings are also available on the Options page.

NOTE:
- The primary right-click functionality of this extension does not permanently hide the element. Any page refresh will bring back the full page as intended. To automatically hide elements when loading a page please try the ‘Automatic Hiding’ feature on the Options page.
- Once the extension is added to Chrome, any pages you already have open will need to be refreshed for the extension to start working.
- The icon menu for chrome extensions should display to the right of the address bar (a puzzle piece).


-- UPDATE NOTES --

3.5.0 (18th November 2022):
- Added "Show Auto Hidden" button in the icon menu to redisplay automatically hidden elements.
- Added "Rerun Auto Hide" button in the icon menu to rerun automatic hiding.

3.4.0 (8th September 2022):
- Added a user-friend option for the Automatic Hiding feature in the icon menu (“Set Auto Hide”) which will automatically generate the necessary element selectors for all your hidden elements on the current page.
- Set newly added items as green, to indicate they are unsaved.

3.3 (21st March 2021):
- Switched to using Chrome's local storage for storing the settings data (instead of syncing the data to your Google account). This allows for a higher data storage limit.

3.2 (31st December 2020):
- Allow user to disable/enable individual automatically hidden sites or elements.

3.1 (22nd December 2020):
- General improvements and bug fixes
- Added option to show/hide help text on the Options page.

3.0 (29th November 2020):
- Added new ‘Automatic Hiding’ feature on the Options page.
- Split the ‘Advanced Features’ section on the Options page into the ‘Automatic Closing’ section and the new ‘Automatic Hiding’ section.
- Improved help text and advanced feature explanations.
- I apologise if any of your Option settings for this extension were reset upon upgrading to version 3.0.

2.2 (6th September 2020):
- Added new 'Export Settings' section to the Options page. This will allow a user to import/export their settings.

2.1 (9th January 2020):
- Enhanced the 'Advanced Features' option that closes listed popup sites. There is now a dropdown list that displays the address of recent new tabs or popups. This means the user doesn't have to manually capture the initial address of the popup site.

2.0 (December 2019):
- Added new 'Advanced Features' section to the Options page.
- Added 'Advanced Features' option that can immediately close listed popup sites.            

How to install Hide That!?

You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.

Preview of Hide That!

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Reviews of hide that!:

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Ravehub Kazantsev April 2nd, 2023

Thanks for the helpful extension, 5 stars. Tell me how to hide the symbol > with this extension

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Rock Roberge March 30th, 2023

I've tried a few "element erasers", and this one is by far the easiest to use and does the best overall job.

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MEL VINCENT VALLECERA September 24th, 2022

Very helpful in hiding old google classroom classes whenever teachers don't archive it.

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