How to hide sticky floating video players
Works on every website · takes about 10 seconds · free
You scroll past the video on a news article and it doesn't stay put — it shrinks into a corner player that follows your scroll, often autoplaying with ads, covering the text you're actually reading.
Why it gets in the way
These floating players cover paragraphs and the scrollbar edge, keep CPU busy with autoplay, and the tiny ✕ (when there is one) moves between sites.
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 Floating videos 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 (usually a position:fixed wrapper div around the player), 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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HideIt lands on Chrome, Firefox and Safari this week. Register and we'll email you the install link the moment it's live — plus you get priority support. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.