NeatTube

YouTube, refined. Hide Shorts, restore dislikes, force quality, and pop any video into Picture-in-Picture.

NeatTube is a lightweight, privacy-first YouTube enhancement extension that bundles quality-of-life features into a single, clean package. HIDE SHORTS: Removes Shorts shelves from the Home, Search, and Subscriptions pages and hides the Shorts entry from the sidebar. Optionally redirects /shorts/ URLs directly to the regular video player. FILTER MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT: Hides Members-only badges, shelves, and cards from the YouTube UI using conservative heuristic matching — no restricted content is accessed. RESTORE DISLIKE COUNTS: Displays community-estimated dislike counts on videos using the public Return YouTube Dislike API. Completely anonymous — no viewing history is stored or transmitted. PICTURE-IN-PICTURE (Alt+P): Instantly pops the active video into a floating PiP window with a single keyboard shortcut. Uses native Chrome PiP for zero-overhead performance and works across YouTube's SPA navigation. AUTO QUALITY SELECTION: Automatically sets your preferred playback resolution (144p up to 4K/8K) when a video loads. Includes smart fallback logic: if your preferred resolution is unavailable, the nearest lower resolution is used instead. — PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS — NeatTube requests only the minimum permissions needed: • storage — to save your toggle preferences via chrome.storage.sync • Host access to youtube.com — to inject CSS and scripts that apply your preferences • Host access to returnyoutubedislikeapi.com — for anonymous, read-only dislike count fetches No tabs, webNavigation, or webRequest permissions are requested. No data is collected, stored remotely, or sold. All code runs locally — no remote code execution, no eval. All settings sync across your devices via Chrome Sync and persist across browser restarts.