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'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)

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Overview

YouTube, tidy & smart? Supercharge YouTube! Give it strong features, filter only the videos you want & exactly the look you like

Set your YouTube Video Player; YouTube Content Categories & Filter-rules; Themes, Tweaks, Layout & Style all at once today & enjoy that for years to come! With our enhancer you have 170+ useful / unique features🧰🔧. To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time. ✔️ Open-source & non-profit since 2012. ✔️ Applies most settings with no reload⌛(unlike other Youtube-Extensions) ✓ Video playback features for embedded videos (+ actually working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo too) 🍃 lightweight: You can expect everything to work as expected (Offline / privacy🔒: We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time). 🎖️Press Reviews: "Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" (5/5⭐ https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways ) - We are now "Recommended by FireFox"!🦊 ONLY 109 extensions🏆) - "Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110) ⋮⚙️⋮ 85+ features for YouTube ⋮ (some can only be found here / we pioneered) 💡 Video Description: Expand always 💡 Transcript always 💡 Chapters always 💡 Subtitles, captions & transcript Options 🛩️ "Virtual Travel" (Switch your content-country) ♻️ Undo the new Sidebar (Description, details, comments) 📈 Analyse your activity 🚫 Block Videos, Channels, Tags, Category ✓ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) ✓ Display dim 🗑️ hide distraction declutter attention / teaching screenshare presentation 🗑️ Remove Related Videos 🚫 adblocker (adblock & adskip or white-list ads your channel subscriptions) ✨ Dim pages until hovered ("Zen mode" for Youtube) 🎨☕ Themes & Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed) 🔄 reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist 🔍 watch video frame by frame. electriciy emoji ⚡🔌 📺 Video Player & Playback Features: ⏯️🔁🔀 Extra Player Buttons (optional): ➰Loop / Repeat (looper / repeater) ➕ Rotate Video 📷 Screenshot (download print save a video Frame) 🧩⌘+⇧ Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys ( including mouse scroll for volume or anytthing) 💨 "Speed-watching" (Fixed Default Playback Speed) (smart video speed controller excluding music or education) 🌈🌄🌇 Disable Ambient lightning (cinematics) ➕ Video Volume Mixer🎛️🔊 🎞️ Expand videos to your full window (window expander) 🎞️ theater mode cinema mode (turn off the lights) 🎞️ theater mode 🎞️ Resize videos (Youtube player Size ) ➕ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p, auto hd, automatic 4K ➕ avoid 60 frames vs 30 fps ➕ HDR vs. SDR ➕ Player Auto-Play: Off 🔊 Fixed Volume or Loudness normalization ➕ Auto-Pause Tabs ➕ Auto-fullscreen ➕ Popup Player ➕ Custom Mini-Player ➕ Pip Picture in Picture ➕ Pop-out Player ( "always-on-top (floating popout) needs OS setting / app) ➕ H264 codec (h264ify to speed up Player / save CPU electricity⚡ (H.264 encoding is faster, efficient in GPUs designed before 2016, then VP8 VP9 AV1 (Flash) 🧹🧽🧼 🗑️ Hide YT Comments / fold / collapse 🗑️ Remove Header 🗑️ Hide Annotations 🗑️ Hide live stream chat 🗑️ Overwrite YT's Shortcuts 🗑️Hide video's details ➕ "Up Next": Off (Reset YT's "Autoplay" after every video ) ➕Toggle YT Player Controls ➕ set YT language ➕Tweak YT's "Scroll for details" ⓘ https://github.com/code-charity/YouTube • 🌱👪 Community, 140+ Volunteers: • https://improvedtube.com • Twitter: @ImprovedTube 🌎 translated to 40+ languages We'd like to team with Developers for Web-Video, YT, Extensions, etc. (please join us on Github) They make unique, friendly, cool, smart features (as listed on https://improvedtube.com) 🔎Found a bug❓🐞🐛 - If you notice any issue, require help, or wish a new feature🌟🧚, please post on Github. Or even write a mail or use "Support" next to "Reviews". (Please don't complain in the Reviews immediately!) We work hard 🏋️👩‍💻 to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience. https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTub/issues ( bugs@improvedtube.com 📧 ideas@improvedtube.com 📧 ) Changes ✔️ Search in the extension ✓ Menu suits Touch (more space) ✓ Legacy List style ➕ Thumbnails .gif animation: OFF, Thumbnails: HD ➕ draggable ImprovedTube icon on YouTube ✓ Mini Player scrolling ➕ Channel home page: "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer) ➕ Channel Video counter ✓ Mimic retro classic YouTube Theme Style Layout Compatiblity: You CAN just try what you need (i.e. sponsorblock / or an extra adblocker / adskipper (most YT Extensions work with one permission "access YT"), yet with this extension, you don't lack features for YT (and some copy our code) (And you dont need to accept 'alerts', 'change privacy settings', 'browser history') We are not affiliated with YouTube. Independently developed since 2012©️

4.5 out of 56.9K ratings

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Kieran BrownNov 21, 2024

This is ALMOST the perfect extension, and I understand this issue is a niche use case, but it's one that's very annoying... For Samsung Dex, content tends to go beyond the bottom of the screen unless you're in fullscreen, so commenting on anything can be an unnecessary battle. It would be very nice if you could resize it to x% of your browsers height, and you could possibly add some more QoL features for shorts such as comments to right and video to left (or vice versa), alternatively you cou... Show more

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lo garithmNov 20, 2024

i wish there was a feature to hide Youtube Music from the feed too

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7mod. njnNov 17, 2024

no adblock

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Details

  • Version
    4.1122
  • Updated
    October 24, 2024
  • Size
    929KiB
  • Languages
    54 languages
  • Developer
    Code for Charity
    github.com/ImprovedTube improvedTube.com YouTube Street Copenhagen 3000 DK
    Website
    Email
    hi@improvedtube.com
  • Non-trader
    This developer has not identified itself as a trader. For consumers in the European Union, please note that consumer rights do not apply to contracts between you and this developer.

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