Improve YouTube! (Open-Source for YouTube) EN

Set your YouTube Video Player; YouTube Content Categories & Filter-rules; Tweaks; Layout, Theme & Style
all at once today & enjoy that for years to come! With our enhancer you have 175+ useful / unique features🧰🔧. To make your video experience & content discovery a whole lot better & save you a lot of clicks & time.
✔️ Open-source
✔️ Applies most settings with no reload⌛ (unlike other YouTube-Extensions; draggable icon on YT)
🍃 lightweight: You can expect everything to work as expected.
✓ Non-profit & no income since 2012. (Bear with us when YouTube changes. it's been an uphill race and only gets better.)
✓ Video playback features for embedded videos (+ preparing mobile m.youtube, Facebook, Netflix, Twitch, Vimeo too)
(Offline / privacy🔒: We can't care about what video you watch, just that you have a better time).

🏅Press Reviews: We are Recommended by FireFox!🦊(🏆Only 98 extensions)
"Enhances YouTube in meaningful ways" - (5/5⭐ gHacks.net/2021/03/26/improved-youtube-enhances-youtube-in-meaningful-ways)
"Might be the best YouTube Extension Ever" - (https://LifeHacker.com/this-might-be-the-only-youtube-browser-extension-youll-1846575110)

⋮⚙️175+ features⋮ (many can only be found here /we pioneered)
💡 Expand always: Video Description, Transcript, Chapters
🛩️ "Virtual Travel" (Switch your content-country)
✨ Dim pages until hovered ("Zen mode" )
🤖 Auto-Pause Tabs ➕ Auto-fullscreen ➕ Pip Picture
📈 Analyse your activity 🚫 Block Videos, Channels, Tags, Category
➕ Video tabs volume Mixer🎛️🔊
🗑️ Remove Related Videos 🗑️ Remove Shorts Reel
🗑️ Hide distraction declutter attention (teaching / screenshare / presentation)
➕ "Up Next": Off (Reset YT's "Autoplay" after every video )
♻️ Undo the new Sidebar (Description, details, comments)
🚫 adblocker (adblock & adskip or white-list ads your channel subscriptions)
➕ Channel: don't play trailer

🎨☕ Themes
🌈🌄🌇 Disable Ambient lightning (cinematics)
📅 Dark mode Schedule (also Black theme for oLed) ✓ Display dim ✓ Blue-light filter (Preserve sleepiness. Relax eyes)

📺 Video Player & Playback Features:
📷 Screenshot (save copy download any video Frame)
⏯️🔁🔀 Extra Player Buttons (optional): ➰Loop / Repeat (looper / repeater) ➕ Rotate Video
💡 Subtitles, captions & transcript Options
🔍 watch videos frame by frame.
🔄 reverse Playlist, Shuffle Playlist
🎞️ Expand videos to your full window (expander)
🎞️ theater mode 🎞️ cinema mode (turn off the lights)
🎞️ Resize videos (player Size)
➕ Default/fixed Video Quality to match your Display 720p 1080p 4k 8k or bandwidth 480p 240p 144p, auto hd, automatic 4K ➕ avoid 60 frames vs. 30 fps ➕ HDR vs. SDR
➕ Player Auto-Play: Off
💨 "Speed-watching" (Fixed Default Playback Speed) (smart video speed controller excluding music or education)
🔊 Fixed Volume or Loudness normalization
➕ Popup Player ➕ Custom Mini-Player
➕ Pop-out Player ( "always-on-top (floating popout) needs OS setting / app)
➕ Deny AV1 codec to speed up Player /save CPU electricity⚡🔌. [Old] GPUs can do [H.264] VP8 VP9 encoding (fast) (H264 h264ify Flash)

🧩⌘+⇧ Youtube Shortcuts: Set any Shortcuts / Hotkeys (mouse scroll for volume, etc. ) 🗑️ Overwrite YT's Shortcuts

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🗑️ Hide YT Comments / fold / collapse 🗑️ Transparent Header 🗑️ Hide Annotations
🗑️ Hide live stream chat 🗑️Hide video's details
➕Toggle YT Player Controls ➕ set YT language ➕Tweak YT's "Scroll for details"
✓ Mimic retro classic Theme Style Layout
✓ Mini Player scrolling ✓ Search inside ✓ Legacy List style
➕ Channel Video counter
➕ Thumbnails .gif animation: OFF, Thumbnails: HD

ⓘ https://github.com/code-charity/youtub (Twitter @ImprovedTube)
(🌱👪 Community / 140+ Volunteers)
🌎 translated to 40+ languages
We'd like to team with Developers for Web-Video & YT Extensions and listed some unique, friendly, cool, smart work on:
https://github.com/code-charity/youtub/discussions/1881 & https://improvedtube.com )

🔎Found a bug❓🐞🐛
- If you notice any issue, need help or wish for a new feature🌟🧚, please post on Github: https://github.com/code-charity/youtub/issues
We work hard 🏋️👩‍💻 to make your experience a 5/5 Stars experience.
(We might even read mail & "Support", next to "Reviews". Please don't complain in the Reviews immediately!)
( bugs@improvedtube.com 📧 ideas@improvedtube.com 📧 )

Compatiblity: While you might not lack features for YT with our extension (and some others copy our code),
You can usually just run all else you need, i.e. sponsorblock, pockettube or extra adblocker / adskipper.
(ⓘ YT Extensions work with one permission to access YT, you dont need to accept 'alerts', 'change privacy settings', 'browser history')

ⓘ Not affiliated with YT.
Independently developed.