Click any element on a page to hide it — cookie bars, sidebars, comments. It stays hidden every time you come back.
Users
4
−1 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#268K
#224K among extensions
Version
1.4.1
updated 13 Oct 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:4 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Page Pruner by URLflows
Every page has something you'd rather not look at. A cookie banner that never
quite goes away, a sidebar of recommended videos, a comment section, a sticky
newsletter bar eating the bottom of your screen.
URLflows for Page Pruning lets you point at it and make it disappear.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Click the toolbar icon and press "Pick element to hide" — or just press
Ctrl+Shift+X (⌘⇧X on Mac).
2. Move your mouse over the page. Whatever is under the cursor lights up.
3. Click it. It's gone.
4. Keep clicking to hide more, then press Esc when you're done.
Come back to that page tomorrow, next week, or next month and the things you
hid are still hidden. No setup, no filter syntax, no rules to write.
CHANGED YOUR MIND?
Open the popup and you'll see a list of everything you've hidden on the current
page, each one described in plain language. Remove them one at a time with the
× button, or press "Restore all on this page" to bring everything back at once.
BUILT TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY
- Smart selection. Hiding an element that leaves an empty container behind will
collapse the container too, so you don't get a blank gap where the thing used
to be.
- Per-page memory. Hiding a sidebar on one article doesn't hide things on
unrelated pages.
- Survives reloads and restarts. Rules are re-applied the moment a page loads.
BACKUP & SETTINGS
The "Settings & backup" link at the bottom of the popup opens a settings page
that lists everything you've hidden, on every site, grouped by page. Restore a
single element or a whole page from there without visiting the site — open
tabs update immediately, no reload needed.
You can also export every rule to a single JSON file as a backup, and import
it again later, on this machine or another one. Imports merge with what you
already have: nothing is overwritten and duplicates are skipped. If you want a
fresh start, "Reset all" puts every page back to normal after a confirmation.
The "Shortcut" section shows the key combination Chrome has actually bound —
not the one the extension asked for — and takes you straight to Chrome's own
shortcuts page to change it, with a plain-English guide to the combinations
Chrome allows and the ones your operating system will steal.
PRIVACY
Nothing you do leaves your computer. There are no accounts, no servers, no
analytics, and no tracking of any kind. The list of things you've hidden is
saved in Chrome's local storage on your own machine and is never transmitted
anywhere. The extension has no ability to send data off your device.
Part of the URLflows family.