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Stop the Pinterest “Pin It” button appearing on images in Chrome?

February 25, 2014 / Dave Taylor / Pinterest Help / 24 Comments

I installed the new Pinterest “Pin In” button into my Google Chrome web browser and now every time I move the cursor over an image a stupid little “pin it” button shows up. I hate it. How do I go back to the original non-intrusive Pinterest button?

Oh, I share your pain. I did the exact same upgrade, moving from having my Pin It button on my bookmark bar to having it be an actual extension in Google Chrome, showing up on the right edge of the Address bar with a nice, cheery Pinterest “P” logo. Works well, except for one feature that also drove me crazy, almost crazy enough to remove the extension entirely.

In fact, it was as I was going through the process of deleting the Pinterest extension for Google Chrome that I realized that there was indeed a way to turn off the “hover pin-it buttons” feature.

And thank goodness, because I was about to give up on Pinterest entirely!

Let me start by showing the problem. So you’re in Chrome and you install the new button. Then you’re looking at an image, here one that’s on my Google Plus page:

top edge of google plus entry with photo

Nothing unusual, but if I move the cursor over the photo itself…

pinterest pin-it button overlay hover chrome

Seems pretty benign with large images, but smaller images are also on the Pinterest hit list and more than once I have found that I couldn’t get to on-image control buttons (like the one in Google Plus that lets you step from one image to another when posting a link to a Web page) because the Pin it button was in the way. AUGH!

To fix it, go to Preferences…

choose preferences from within Google Chrome

Then click on “Extensions” on the left side. A ways down (depending on how many extensions you have installed) you’ll find:

pinterest extension for chrome

It’s subtle. Really subtle. But “Options” is what you want, so click on it…

pinterest extension options

Ahhhh… that’s what we want. “Hide hovering Pin It buttons”. Click on it to check the check box.

Now close the preferences tab and… done. Gone. The Pinterest button is still on the top right, but the hovering buttons are no more.

Phew. Just when I though it was time to bail on Pinterest.

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24 comments on “Stop the Pinterest “Pin It” button appearing on images in Chrome?”

  1. T. O'Zivia says:
    June 29, 2021 at 1:14 pm

    Old post, but still works, thanks!

    Reply
    • Pia Alicia Pilar Mogollon says:
      July 23, 2021 at 2:04 pm

      Oh my laws yes I am so thrilled this still works, even though it took a little extra time finding where the options were on my windows chrome browser. But yes, so happy to have turned this off. I would have never thought it would bother me until I am working a puzzle on jigsaw planet and that little button started appearing on every little puzzle piece, egads it was really irritatingly distracting. So mucho thanks to Dave Taylor, for relieving me of that frustration. 😀

      Reply
  2. Cara Bennett says:
    April 13, 2021 at 10:35 am

    SO MANY THANK YOU’S! Not only did I remove the Pinterest Button, but I turned off Honey as well!

    Reply
  3. Suzanne says:
    February 11, 2021 at 7:05 am

    THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !
    I’ve been trying to figure out how to remove those annoying Pinterest buttons for at least a year now. Problem now resolve.
    Warmest regards, Suzanne

    Reply
  4. John Prosise says:
    April 15, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    It all sounds promising. But following Dave’s directions in current Chrome (57.0) leaves me with a mixed response: rollovers upon some images are clean (as desired), rollovers on others show a sliver of a “P” icon, and rollovers on others show the full “P” icon. Looks like I’ll uninstall Pinterest extension, unless someone is kind enough to offer some advice more reliable than Dave’s. Sorry for discouraged tone.

    Reply
    • Michael jones says:
      May 8, 2017 at 11:59 am

      Yeah, careful with that as well. I removed mine today and it broke the browser. Immediately it took 30 seconds to a minute to even display a page, even the new tab page. Then when it finally shows me the page it is another minute before any links start working.

      Reply
  5. Michael says:
    September 8, 2016 at 5:40 am

    Thanks, love this post!

    Reply
  6. Sarah says:
    August 4, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Thank you! Great find.

    Reply
  7. Carmen Klapperich says:
    June 29, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    THANK YOU!!!

    Reply
  8. Dave Charbonneau says:
    June 2, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    I looked this up because I couldn’t figure out how to remove the “P”. Problem is, I don’t even have a Pinterest extension! I finally figured out that the site I was on had Pinterest pinning activated via a script.

    Reply
  9. nancy says:
    August 29, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    How can I do it for Firefox? I have tried options and apps and nothing works.

    Reply
  10. Maria says:
    August 13, 2015 at 9:10 am

    I just have to express my gratitude. Thank you soooo much!!!
    It’s also nice to know that this drive other people crazy too!
    Thank you!

    Reply
  11. Anni says:
    March 5, 2015 at 12:15 pm

    A MILLION BILLION THANK YOUS!

    Reply
    • patrick says:
      May 11, 2015 at 5:19 pm

      that helped so much see mine was so tiny and in the top left corner and it got a little annoying and so i try to get ride of it and i could not so THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH THAT REALLY HELPED A LOT

      Reply
    • Sohie says:
      December 24, 2015 at 1:02 pm

      OMG! YAY!!!! ITS GONE!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!!!! IF YOUR READING THIS ON THE 24 of December 2015, which is the day I posted this, MERRY X-MAS TO ALL! (especially Dave, you’re a Christmas miracle!

      Reply
  12. frank belcastro says:
    November 16, 2014 at 9:31 pm

    Thank you so much!! It worked on Safari, too!

    Reply
  13. Teresa says:
    September 9, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    Thanks so much for your help! I checked everything on my website until it drove me crazy. I didn’t stop to think it could be the Chrome extension itself. You’ve made one blonde a little less dizzy. Thanks.

    Reply
  14. Charlotte says:
    June 26, 2014 at 7:24 am

    Thanks, this was so helpful!

    Reply
  15. Caroline says:
    May 11, 2014 at 6:43 pm

    THANK YOU! this was making me crazy!

    Reply
  16. eddie says:
    March 28, 2014 at 6:35 am

    I love Google-ling to find the answer. Thank you!

    Reply
  17. Tami says:
    March 1, 2014 at 7:49 am

    Thank you!

    Reply
  18. Kent Brewster says:
    February 27, 2014 at 9:36 am

    You can also turn off hoverbuttons by right-clicking the toolbar button and choosing Options. (This also works for any Chrome extension that has an Options page.) Very sorry if this caused trouble for you and your readers; we did our best to let people know with an alert when the update went out.

    Reply
    • danielle says:
      March 2, 2014 at 7:56 am

      Kent, as a website, how can we remove this functionality from our site?

      The new “Pin it” chrome extension clashes with existing functionality on our photos and creates bad user experience.

      I saw you can disable it for specific photos only with a code snippet or make the whole site “un-pinable”, but we are simply interested in removing the specific chrome functionality. Other than that, our users enjoy pinning their content to Pinterest!

      Any suggestions how we can resolve this issue?

      Thanks in advance,
      Danielle

      Reply
    • DBJ says:
      March 24, 2016 at 1:33 am

      @Kent

      Well zoom to 2016 and the very latest Chrome running on Win10.

      And “pin it” button appears on some images still? I have no “Pinterest” extension installed. I was looking through registry and no there is no “pinit” or “pinterest” inside it?

      http://puu.sh/nRYzF/0372f9f6a6.jpg

      Please advise how do we remove this?

      Reply

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