Improve YouTube!
An open-source browser extension with hundreds of options for changing YouTube's layout and player.
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About Improve YouTube!
Improve YouTube! is a browser extension that adds a large set of settings to YouTube. The project lists more than 300 tweaks covering playback, video quality and codec choice, extra player buttons, full-tab and full-screen viewing, recommendations and Shorts.
Most options are set once and then apply automatically, so it suits people who want YouTube to behave the same way every time, for example always playing at a chosen quality or hiding distracting parts of the page.
Strengths
- More than 300 options for YouTube playback and layout
- Controls for default quality, codec and player size
- Can hide distractions such as Shorts and recommendations
Limitations
- The number of settings can be overwhelming
- YouTube page changes can temporarily break features
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source, developed by volunteers.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- code-charity
- Platforms
- Browser extension
- How it runs
- Browser extension
- Account
- Not required
- Best suited for
- Regular YouTube viewers who want fine control over the player and page
- Categories
- Browser tools, Video editing
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Improve YouTube!
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Enhancer for YouTube
Browser extension that adds playback speed, quality, volume and codec controls to YouTube.
Enhancer for YouTube is proprietary and offers fewer options, focusing on playback speed, quality, volume and codec controls for Chrome, Edge and Firefox.
Unhook
A browser extension that hides YouTube recommendation feeds, comments and other distractions.
Unhook is closed source and only hides recommendation feeds, comments and other distractions, without player controls such as quality or codec.
Improve YouTube! as an alternative
Listings that name Improve YouTube! as an alternative.
BlockTube
A browser extension that filters YouTube videos, channels and comments by title, channel or content.
Improve YouTube! offers more than 300 layout and player options, including hiding Shorts and recommendations, rather than keyword or channel-based filtering of videos and comments.
Video Speed Controller
A browser extension that adds keyboard shortcuts to speed up, slow down and rewind HTML5 video.
Improve YouTube! is open source and offers more than 300 YouTube playback and layout options, but it covers only YouTube rather than HTML5 media on any site.
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