Improve Youtube ๐ŸŽง For Yo Chrome extension icon

Improve Youtube ๐ŸŽง For Yo

๐Ÿ‘ฅ 400K+ users
๐Ÿ“ฆ v4.2026
๐Ÿ’พ 1.03MiB
๐Ÿ“… 2026-03-23
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Overview

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 features๐Ÿงฐ๐Ÿ”ง. To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time.
โœ”๏ธ Open-source & non-profit since 2012.
โœ”๏ธ Applies most settings with no reloadโŒ›(unlike other Youtube-Extensions)
โœ“ Video playback features for embedded videos (+ actually working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo too)
๐Ÿƒ lightweight: You can expect everything to work as expected
(Offline / privacy๐Ÿ”’: We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time).

๐ŸŽ–๏ธPress Reviews: "Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" (5/5โญ https://www.gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways )
- We are now "Recommended by FireFox"!๐ŸฆŠ ONLY 109 extensions๐Ÿ†)
- "Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)

โ‹ฎโš™๏ธโ‹ฎ 85+ features for YouTube โ‹ฎ (some can only be found here / we pioneered)
๐Ÿ’ก Video Description: Expand always
๐Ÿ’ก Transcript always ๐Ÿ’ก Chapters always
๐Ÿ’ก Subtitles, captions & transcript Options
๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ "Virtual Travel" (Switch your content-country)
โ™ป๏ธ Undo the new Sidebar (Description, details, comments)
๐Ÿ“ˆ Analyse your activity
๐Ÿšซ Block Videos, Channels, Tags, Category
โœ“ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) โœ“ Display dim
๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ hide distraction declutter attention / teaching screenshare presentation
๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Remove Related Videos
๐Ÿšซ adblocker (adblock & adskip or white-list ads your channel subscriptions)
โœจ Dim pages until hovered ("Zen mode" for Youtube)
๐ŸŽจโ˜• Themes & Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed)
๐Ÿ”„ reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist

๐Ÿ” watch video frame by frame.
electriciy emoji โšก๐Ÿ”Œ

๐Ÿ“บ Video Player & Playback Features:
โฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”€ Extra Player Buttons (optional): โžฐLoop / Repeat (looper / repeater) โž• Rotate Video
๐Ÿ“ท Screenshot (download print save a video Frame)
๐ŸงฉโŒ˜+โ‡ง Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys ( including mouse scroll for volume or anytthing)
๐Ÿ’จ "Speed-watching" (Fixed Default Playback Speed) (smart video speed controller excluding music or education)
๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒ„๐ŸŒ‡ Disable Ambient lightning (cinematics)
โž• Video Volume Mixer๐ŸŽ›๏ธ๐Ÿ”Š
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Expand videos to your full window (window expander)
๐ŸŽž๏ธ theater mode cinema mode (turn off the lights) ๐ŸŽž๏ธ theater mode
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Resize videos (Youtube player Size )
โž• Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p, auto hd, automatic 4K โž• avoid 60 frames vs 30 fps โž• HDR vs. SDR
โž• Player Auto-Play: Off
๐Ÿ”Š Fixed Volume or Loudness normalization
โž• Auto-Pause Tabs โž• Auto-fullscreen โž• Popup Player โž• Custom Mini-Player
โž• Pip Picture in Picture โž• Pop-out Player ( "always-on-top (floating popout) needs OS setting / app)
โž• H264 codec (h264ify to speed up Player / save CPU electricityโšก (H.264 encoding is faster, efficient in GPUs designed before 2016, then VP8 VP9 AV1 (Flash)

๐Ÿงน๐Ÿงฝ๐Ÿงผ
๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Hide YT Comments / fold / collapse ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Remove Header ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Hide Annotations
๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Hide live stream chat ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Overwrite YT's Shortcuts ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธHide video's details
โž• "Up Next": Off (Reset YT's "Autoplay" after every video )
โž•Toggle YT Player Controls โž• set YT language โž•Tweak YT's "Scroll for details"

โ“˜ https://github.com/code-charity/YouTube
โ€ข ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ‘ช Community, 140+ Volunteers:
โ€ข https://improvedtube.com โ€ข Twitter: @ImprovedTube

๐ŸŒŽ 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)

๐Ÿ”ŽFound a bugโ“๐Ÿž๐Ÿ›
- If you notice any issue, require help, or wish a new feature๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿงš, 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 ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTub/issues
( bugs@improvedtube.com ๐Ÿ“ง ideas@improvedtube.com ๐Ÿ“ง )

Changes
โœ”๏ธ Search in the extension โœ“ Menu suits Touch (more space) โœ“ Legacy List style
โž• Thumbnails .gif animation: OFF, Thumbnails: HD
โž• draggable ImprovedTube icon on YouTube
โœ“ Mini Player scrolling
โž• Channel home page: "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer)
โž• Channel Video counter
โœ“ 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 2012ยฉ๏ธ

Tags

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Privacy Practices

โœ“ Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
โœ“ Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
โœ“ Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

๐Ÿ” Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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