DeBait – Real YouTube Thumbnails, Not Clickbait
Automatically replace clickbait YouTube thumbnails with the real first frame of the video. Lightweight, private, no setup.
As of June 2026, DeBait – Real YouTube Thumbnails, Not Clickbait has — users in the Entertainment category.
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Version
1.0.0
Manifest V3
History
1 snapshotsTracking since Jun 23, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
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| Jun 23, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Now | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
- Host access
- *://*.youtube.com/*, *://*.ytimg.com/*
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About
DeBait swaps clickbait YouTube thumbnails for the real first frame of each video, so your feed shows what videos are actually about — not the misleading bait. It works automatically the moment you install it. No popup, no account, no settings. • Replaces thumbnails on the home feed, search, sidebar and channel pages • Works on both regular videos and Shorts • Restores the original automatically when no real frame is available • Lightweight (~3 kB) and private: no tracking, no accounts, no extra requests DeBait only needs access to YouTube and changes thumbnails at the network layer, so the clickbait image is never even downloaded.
Technical
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 44.96KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 54
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- jmkdgcepkgkdedfalackiijpfbehpgcb
- Developer ID
- u6dae981eb19e7eb9f247454961daa923
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Jun 22, 2026
- Last Updated (Store)
- Jun 22, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 23, 2026
- Website
- —
- Privacy Policy
- https://github.com/nnx0r/debait/blob/main/PRIVACY.md
Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 23, 2026.