What is Better Subscriptions for YouTube™?

Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension developed by OsaSoft, and its main feature is "Make navigating YouTube's subscription grid easier by hiding watched videos".

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Extension Usage Instructions

This plugin adds a toggle to the YouTube Subscription Feed that allows users to toggle whether or not they want watched videos to show up in the feed.
The aim of this is to make navigating the subscription feed much easier and intuitive.

Current features:
- Hide videos that are marked as WATCHED on Subscriptions Feed, YT Home and Channel Videos page
- Mark videos as WATCHED to hide them from feed
- Mark all as WATCHED
- Hide videos in subscription feed automatically, once you start watching them
- Hide Premieres until they are available to watch
- Hide Shorts automatically
- Hide empty sections (Today, Yesterday, Last Week, etc)
- Collapse sections to navigate to older videos more easily
- Show videos that have been hidden
- When hidden videos are shown, unmark videos as WATCHED to show them in feed again
- Settings page with configurable options

If you find any bugs or want to request new features, or if you want to contribute to the project, you're more than welcome to do so via Github: https://github.com/OsaSoft/youtube-better-subscriptions
You can also reach out to me via Twitter: https://twitter.com/Osa_Soft

You can find the Firefox version of this extension over at: https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/youtube-better-subscriptions/

For the full changelog see the install/update page or on GitHub.

Extension Basic Information

Name	Better Subscriptions for YouTube™
ID	fkchdogohkjpnhfkganifkbbjcjofbjf
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/better-subscriptions-for/fkchdogohkjpnhfkganifkbbjcjofbjf
Description	Make navigating YouTube's subscription grid easier by hiding watched videos
File Size	116 KB
Installation Count	4,253
Current Version	0.19.1
Last Updated	2023-10-04
Publish Date	2020-03-31
Rating	3.81/5 Total 84 Ratings
Developer	OsaSoft
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/OsaSoft/youtube-better-subscriptions
Help Page URL	https://github.com/OsaSoft/youtube-better-subscriptions/issues
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
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