When comparing Enhancer for YouTube™ vs AdBlock Plus, the Slant community recommends AdBlock Plus for most people. In the question“What are the best Chrome add-ons?” AdBlock Plus is ranked 16th while Enhancer for YouTube™ is ranked 36th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Pins the video to a corner of the screen if you scroll down
With this feature you can read the entire page without ever losing sight of the video.
Pro Control the volume with the mouse wheel anytime the cursor is over the player
This is especially handy in videos where there's a lot of dynamic in volume levels, unlike the slider at the bottom you can raise or lower it almost before you're finished forming the thought to do so. It also allows you to set a default start volume for all videos instead of the usual 100%.
Pro Specify your preferred resolutions
Ever had a network-heavy process running while watching YouTube and had the site start loading videos at a grainy resolution instead of taking an extra few seconds to buffer adequately at a higher one? Not anymore with this extension! You can set up to four resolutions in order of preference and it will ensure that if any are available for that video it will use them rather than adapt.
Pro Free & open source
Pro Blocks a wide selection of annoying ads
Video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, flashy banners, pop-ups, pop-unders and much more.
Cons
Con Uses too much RAM
AdBlock+ tends to use a lot of memory, which has been documented in many use cases as well as admitted by AdBlock themselves. Considering there are alternatives out there that can block ads successfully with half the RAM usage as AdBlock, one has to wonder why this is a problem specific to AdBock.
Con Users automatically opted in to whitelist
AdBlock+ has an automatic whitelist when installed that allows certain advertisers through the blocking mechanism. The fact that these advertisers pay for this privilege makes this particular scenario rife with conflict of interest.