From wedding speeches to music videos, from DIY tutorials to movie clips, from celebrity interviews to remote wilderness adventures, it’s all on YouTube. According to YouTube official statisticsmore than 20 million videos are uploaded daily to the platform.
Over the years, YouTube has added a bunch of extra features to improve the viewing experience for its users, but you can make it even better with some well-chosen ones. browser extensions. No matter how you use YouTube, there should be something you can benefit from.
We’ve featured Google Chrome extensions here, which should also work on Microsoft Edge and any other Chromium-based browser (including Opera and Vivaldi). We will also avoid extensions based on ad blocking, in the interest of supporting content creators on YouTube.
Optimize YouTube
Optimize YouTube is one of the most comprehensive and long-running YouTube extensions, and it comes with a lot of features. For starters, you can use it to change the look of the YouTube site in a variety of ways: Hide the sidebar or video thumbnails for a cleaner look, for example, or change the color of the progress bar and other features.
Other tweaks you can use include new search results tabs (so you can find new videos without losing your place in the current one), the option to hide YouTube Shorts, and the option to change your playlists. You can also pause videos when switching tabs, and use the extension to configure custom keyboard shortcuts. There is a lot here.
YouTube Booster
This is another extension with many strings to its bow. YouTube Booster gives you faster and easier access to playback speed, quality, and volume, and more granular video control than YouTube’s built-in options. The extension can also change the look of YouTube using custom themes, such as a distinct dark mode look that offers a lot of contrast.
