What are the best addons to enhance Youtube?

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Best addons to enhance Youtube	Price	Last Updated
-- Iridium	0	Feb 21, 2021
-- Better YouTube Watch History	-	May 15, 2019
-- Ratings Preview for YouTube	-	May 15, 2019
-- YouTube Remote	0	Jan 25, 2020
-- Remove Watched From Youtube Related Videos	-	Sep 27, 2019

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Iridium

Top Pro

Enable quick controls

Displays a section located above the video description containing the following quick controls: Autoplay: Thumbnails: Full browser: Screen shot: See More

Top Con

Iridium is currently on hold

The current build includes a bug which seems to break youtube functionality. However after a bit of searching, a solution can be found. Posted here to help others who might be debugging all their extensions for youtube not loading videos. The solution for many seems to be to keep the autoplay function within Iridium settings ON. Now your videos will most likely load and play again like they should. See More

CaffeinatedHomonoia's Experience

This userscript/extension used to be great, but lost most of its functionality, hasn't been updated in a year, and currently doesn't work on YouTube. See More

Top Pro

Allow HFR (60fps) streams

Controls whether or not videos can play HFR (High Frame Rate) streams when available. See More

Top Pro

Use dark theme

Switches the theme of the Iridium settings page from light to dark. See More

Top Pro

Use modified locale

Allows the extension to use the language modified locally by the user instead of an automatic language. This only applies to the extension UI. See More

Top Pro

Play channel trailers automatically

Controls whether or not the trailer video on the channel page should play automatically. See More

Top Pro

Hide end screen cards on mouse hover

When enabled all end screen cards will become invisible only when the mouse is over the video player, except when the mouse is directly over an end screen card, which allows only that card to become visible again. See More

Top Pro

Video stays always visible while scrolling

When enabled the player will minimize into the bottom right corner of the screen once the original position is less than half visible. See More

Top Pro

Change volume using the mouse wheel

When enabled the volume of the video can be controlled using the mouse wheel while the mouse cursor is over the video player. By default the volume changes up and down by 5%. See More

Top Pro

Player shortcuts always active

Allows control over the video player shortcuts from anywhere on the page which would otherwise require the player to be active or selected in order to work. See More

Top Pro

Force high quality player thumbnail

When autoplay is disabled the video thubmnail will be set to the highest resolution possible. If this is not available it will display a generic grey YouTube icon. See More

Top Pro

Memorize player volume

The extension will remember the last player volume the user changed to and restore that volume when YouTube tries to reset it. See More

Top Pro

Memorize player size

The extension will remember the last player size the user changed to and enforce that size when YouTube tries to reset it. See More

Top Pro

Allow ads on videos

Controls whether or not ads can be displayed on the video page. See More

Top Pro

Allow loudness normalization

Top Pro

Allow subtitles on videos

Controls whether or not subtitles can be displayed on the video. See More

Top Pro

Allow annotations on videos

Controls whether or not annotations can be displayed on the video. See More

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Play videos automatically

Controls whether or not videos on the video page should play automatically. See More

Top Pro

Default video quality

Sets which quality the video player should play. See More

Top Pro

Enable reverse playlist control

Enables control over the order in which non-random playlists can be played, this excludes mix type playlists automatically generated by YouTube See More

Top Pro

Controls the comment section visibility

Top Pro

Display how long the video was uploaded

Displays in front of the published date how long ago the video has been uploaded. See More

Top Pro

Display uploaded videos number

Displays the total number of uploaded videos in front of the video author name. This also links directly to the list of videos of that channel. See More

Top Pro

Enable blacklist

Blocks all videos from a channel on main pages, with the exception of Subscriptions and Channel pages. When enabled a cross button will become available on the video thumbnails, pressing it will automatically add the channel of that video to the blacklist and remove any videos belonging to that channel. See More

Top Pro

Enable player pop-up

When enabled a button will be displayed over video thumbnails allowing videos to be played in a pop-up window. When launched from a playing video it will resume from where it was playing as well as when closing the same pop-up window. See More

Top Pro

Shift key toggles audio on video thumbnail playback

Allows audio control using the Shift key while playing videos by hovering the thumbnails. Pressing the Shift key will toggle the audio of the video. The audio always defaults to mute when a video thumbnail playback begins. The default volume for the video thumbnail playback is set to 50%. See More

Top Pro

Play videos by hovering the thumbnails

Enables full video playback while the mouse is over the thumbnail of a specific video. See More

Top Pro

Improve the YouTube logo

This is a simple tweak to the bright red YouTube logo. When enabled it will switch the YouTube logo on the top left corner to neutral color; white when using the dark theme and dark grey when using the clear theme. See More

Top Pro

Make user images squared

Removes the circle style forced around the user and channel images which hides the corner of the images. See More

Top Pro

Default channel tab

Defines which channel tab to load when clicking on a channel link or user link. See More

Top Pro

Default YouTube logo page settings

Defines which page to go to when clicking on the YouTube logo located on the top left corner. See More

Top Pro

The extensions from the chrome store is also available on firefox & waterfox

If using a script manager it is usable across a whole range of browsers. There is a free script available to be used in browser script managers like ''Tampermonkey" which includes all functions of the addon through the script injections. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight youtube.com enhancer and user experience editor

It does not overwhelm you with too many options, so you do not have difficulty choosing or having to try loads of different setups to get it just right. However the most important features are there. See More

Top Pro

The developer particlecore is a respected github open source programmer and he presents all the functionality for free

Keeps up with updating bugs regularly. Always comments on 'issues' on git. See More

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Better YouTube Watch History

Top Pro

cloud sync available

Automatically syncs across all computers you are logged in to See More

Top Con

Outdated

Last update are March 27, 2016 See More

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Ratings Preview for YouTube

Top Pro

Effective

view the rating of the videos before watching the actual video See More

score 1 · Answer 4

YouTube Remote

Add Video or Image

Answer 5

Remove Watched From Youtube Related Videos

Top Con

Has issues

cause video on playlist invisible or gone See More

Answer 6

YouTube Enhancer Plus

Top Con

Discontinued

The development of YouTube™ Enhancer Plus has ended when Mozilla has announced the end of XUL add-ons. See More

Answer 7

Youtube Plus

Top Pro

Grid Views Supported

you can view youtube video in grid view See More

Top Con

Discontinued

Due to the release of the new YouTube layout this extension is no longer receiving any updates See More

Top Pro

Cross Platform

Available on chrome, firefox, opera, userscript See More

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Answer 8

Magic Actions for Youtube

Top Con

Tries installing another add-on

Lokman Afandy's Experience

contain Bundleware which asks to install click and clean tool upon installation See More

8 Options Considered

My Recommendation for Iridium

My Recommendation for Iridium

Enable quick controls

Iridium is currently on hold

Allow HFR (60fps) streams

Use dark theme

Use modified locale

Play channel trailers automatically

Hide end screen cards on mouse hover

Video stays always visible while scrolling

Change volume using the mouse wheel

Player shortcuts always active

Force high quality player thumbnail

Memorize player volume

Memorize player size

Allow ads on videos

Allow loudness normalization

Allow subtitles on videos

Allow annotations on videos

Play videos automatically

Default video quality

Enable reverse playlist control

Controls the comment section visibility

Display how long the video was uploaded

Display uploaded videos number

Enable blacklist

Enable player pop-up

Shift key toggles audio on video thumbnail playback

Play videos by hovering the thumbnails

Improve the YouTube logo

Make user images squared

Default channel tab

Default YouTube logo page settings

The extensions from the chrome store is also available on firefox & waterfox

Lightweight youtube.com enhancer and user experience editor

The developer particlecore is a respected github open source programmer and he presents all the functionality for free

My Recommendation for Better YouTube Watch History

My Recommendation for Better YouTube Watch History

cloud sync available

Outdated

My Recommendation for Ratings Preview for YouTube

My Recommendation for Ratings Preview for YouTube

Effective

My Recommendation for YouTube Remote

My Recommendation for YouTube Remote

My Recommendation for Remove Watched From Youtube Related Videos

My Recommendation for Remove Watched From Youtube Related Videos

Has issues

My Recommendation for YouTube Enhancer Plus

My Recommendation for YouTube Enhancer Plus

Discontinued

My Recommendation for Youtube Plus

My Recommendation for Youtube Plus

Grid Views Supported

Discontinued

Cross Platform

My Recommendation for Magic Actions for Youtube

My Recommendation for Magic Actions for Youtube

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