Youtube Live Chat Handle Chrome extension icon

Youtube Live Chat Handle

👥 29 users
📦 v1.1
💾 9.25KiB
📅 2025-08-20
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Overview

In a recent (as of August 2025) change, Youtube has begun rolling out a change for names of live chat members to handles instead of channel names. This is likely to combat impersonators and other obnoxious individuals. The caveat of this change is that now every message has this ugly "@" symbol leading their name. This lightweight extension simply visually removes this symbol for a return to the cleaner, more familiar look.

PS
At this time I don't think there is a way to fully restore the channel name instead of handles (beyond them reverting the shift entirely). Luckily we CAN remove the "@" with this extension!

This is fully viewable on GitHub if you wanna see here:
https://github.com/gacharyzoniea/chromeRemove.git

Tags

Lifestyle/entertainment social-media video lifestyle/entertainment

Privacy Practices

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

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