Hide Profile is a free, open-source Chrome extension that takes profile pictures out of your social feeds, so you judge the idea, not the face behind it.

Why

Faces anchor how we read. The same words land differently under a famous face, a familiar one, or a stranger's. Hide Profile removes that bias with one click.

What it does

• Three styles: Blur, Hide (neutral placeholder), or Replace every avatar with one of 7 presets or your own image

• Reveal on hover: peek at the real picture whenever you want

• Smart detection: catches small, round avatars that site rules miss, so it keeps working after redesigns

• Works where you scroll: X, LinkedIn, Peerlist, YouTube (channel avatars and video thumbnails), GitHub, Reddit, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, Bluesky, DEV and Medium

• Per-site toggles, plus Alt+Shift+H to switch everything on or off

Shield (optional)

• Clean language: masks swear words in English, Hinglish and Hindi, including look-alikes like f*ck and sh1t

• Blur media: post images, thumbnails and videos stay blurred until you hover

Private by design

Zero network requests, zero analytics, zero dependencies, and just one permission (storage). Everything stays in your browser.

How it works

The page is never rewritten. Avatars get a data attribute and one injected stylesheet does the rest, applied before paint, so there's no flash of the real photo and it never fights React. A MutationObserver keeps up with infinite scroll.

Install

Clone the repo, open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode and click Load unpacked. Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and other Chromium browsers.

Contributions welcome: adding a new site is a one-line PR.