How to hide Drift chatbot
Works on every website · takes about 10 seconds · free
Drift greets you on B2B sites with an animated bot that wants to "book a meeting" before you've read a single paragraph. It opens itself, plays sounds on some sites, and reappears on every page load.
Why it gets in the way
Auto-expanding teasers are the worst offender: the widget doesn't wait for a click, it opens a conversation card over the content you came to read.
The 10-second fix
HideIt is a free browser extension that hides any element you point at — including widgets inside iframes that normally swallow your clicks and open instead of hiding.
- 1. Install HideIt — free for Chrome, Firefox and Safari (register below to get the link at launch).
- 2. Turn it on — click the HideIt icon on the page that's bugging you. Until you do, HideIt can't see the page at all.
- 3. Click the widget — hover Drift until the red outline wraps it, click, choose Every visit. Gone — and it stays gone, even if the site re-injects it.
The manual way (if you like pain)
You can open DevTools, find the element (#drift-frame-chat, #drift-frame-controller), and write a custom CSS rule in an ad-blocker. It works until the site changes its markup — HideIt's self-healing selectors handle that for you, and re-hide the element if the site sneaks it back.
Does hiding it break the site?
No — HideIt only hides what you clicked, nothing else. If you ever want it back, open the HideIt popup and un-hide it in one click, per site, per element.
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