What is 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)?

'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos) is a Chrome extension developed by https://improvedtube.com, and its main feature is "YouTube, tidy + smart? Youtube video youtube player size youtube color ad skip speed volume channel skipper tags playlist hide".

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Download 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos) Extension CRX File

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Extension Usage Instructions

Set your YouTube Video Player, Category Filter-rules, Themes, Layout, Style once, today & enjoy that for years to come! With our extension you have 80+ 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 & all sites (we are also working on Facebook, mobile m.youtube, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo)
🍃 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 YT
(some can only be found here (🦄we pioneered)

💡 Video Description: Expand always
📈 Analyse your activity
🚫 adblocker (adblock & adskip or white-list ads your channel subscriptions)
🚫 Block Videos, Channels, Tags, Category
💡 Transcript always
💡 Subtitles captions transacript always on/off
🗑️ hide distraction declutter attention / teaching screenshare presentation
🗑️ Remove Related Videos
🗑️ Hide YT Comments / fold / collapse 🗑️ Remove Header 🗑️ Hide Annotations
🗑️ Hide live stream chat 🗑️ Overwrite YT's Shortcuts 🗑️Hide video's details
🔄 reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist
🔍 watch video frame by frame.
➕ "Up Next": Off (Reset YT's "Autoplay" after every video )
🎨☕ Themes & Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed)
✓ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleep. Relax eyes) ✓ Display dim
➕Toggle YT Player Controls ➕ set YT language ➕Tweak YT's "Scroll for details"

📺 Video Player & Playback Features:
⏯️🔁🔀 Extra Player Buttons (optional): ➕ Loop / Repeat ➕ Rotate Video
📷 Screenshot (download print save a video Frame)
🧩⌘+⇧ Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys ( including mouse scroll for volume or anytthing)
💨 Speedwatching (Fixed Default Playback Speed)
➕ Video Volume Mixer🎛️🔊
🎞️ Expand videos to your full window.
🎞️ Resize videos ( Youtube player Size )
➕ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p ➕ 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 is 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 AV1 VP8 VP9 Flash)

ⓘ Official Accounts:
• 🌱👪Community/Volunteers:
https://github.com/code-for-charity/ImprovedTube-for-YouTub
• Website: https://improvedtube.com • Twitter: @ImprovedTube

🌎 translated to 38+ languages

We'd like to team with Developers of Web-Video & YT-Extensions
(please join us on Github)
They make many unique/friendly, notably cool, smart features:
We listed some on https://improvedtube.com

🔎Found a bug❓🐞🐛
- If you notice any issue, require help, or wish a new feature🌟🧚 please post on Github or contacting us. 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
[email protected] 📧 [email protected] 📧

Changes
✔️ Search in the extension
✓ Menu suits Touchscreen (2-d & little more space) ✓ Legacy List style
➕ Thumbnail .gif animation: OFF Thumbnail HD
➕ draggable ImprovedTube icon on YouTube
✓ Mini Player scrolling
➕ Channel home page: "featured content" (vs channel intro trailer)
➕ Channel Video counter
✓ Mimic retro classic YT 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")
With this extension, you don't need common features (some even just copied our code): 'youtub adblocker' 'adblock for' "automatic 4K" "auto hd" 'floating popout' 'cinema theater mode' 'magic actions enhancer' 'turn off the lights' 'looper', 'repeater', 'video speed controller', 'window expander', (For these you dont need to accept 'alerts', 'change privacy settings', 'browser history')

We are not affiliated with YouTube.
Independently developed since 2012©️

Extension Basic Information

Name	'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)
ID	bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/improve-youtube-%F0%9F%8E%A7-for-yo/bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd
Description	YouTube, tidy + smart? Youtube video youtube player size youtube color ad skip speed volume channel skipper tags playlist hide
File Size	637 KB
Installation Count	384,536
Current Version	4.704
Last Updated	2024-02-29
Publish Date	2020-05-26
Rating	4.51/5 Total 6657 Ratings
Developer	https://improvedtube.com
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	http://improvedtube.com/
Help Page URL	http://www.improvedtube.com/contact
Privacy Policy Page URL	http://improvedtube.com/privacy
Supported Languages	id,ms,de,en,en-GB,en-US,fil,fr,sw,nl,no,vi,tr,ca,da,et,es,es-419,hr,it,lv,lt,hu,pl,pt-BR,pt-PT,ro,sk,sl,fi,sv,cs,el,sr,bg,ru,uk,iw,fa,mr,hi,bn,gu,ta,te,kn-IN,ml,th,am-ET,ar,zh-CN,zh-TW,ja,ko
manifest.json
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