Better Subscriptions for YouTube™
Make navigating YouTube's subscription grid easier by hiding watched videos
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.
Latest reviews
DEVELOPERS HELP IT JUST STOPPED WORKING TODAY!!!!!!!!!
Easily the best extension for YT. I hope the developer updates it for Chrome again. We really need this in our lives.
Couldn't live without this one!
For me, this is the best free extension for marking videos as watched, and hiding them from my subscriptions-overview. Some days is marks 2 videos as watched, while I only click on one, but all in all it's the most user friendly one that I've tried...and I've tried a lot.
best one!
Excellent extension. Couldn't possibly use the mess that is YT without it. 10 out of 10 *Thanks for the fix.
This is a fantastic extension and, having used it for several years, I now find the default youtube subscriptions page unbearable. In short; use it, it's great. It was unfortunately broken by a youtube update a few days ago. In case you've not been following the extension's github page, then a fix has been made and pushed to the chrome store. We're just waiting on the webstore approval process for the fix to be rolled out.
Works great! A must have for me personally to use Youtube - so I can clean out videos I don't want to watch while it also removes watched videos. This way I can keep a clean subscription box and it's always easy to see if there have been new videos.
Works great! A must have for me personally to use Youtube - so I can clean out videos I don't want to watch while it also removes watched videos. This way I can keep a clean subscription box and it's always easy to see if there have been new videos.
Works great
Works great
Indeed an awesome extension that I use a lot. Just like the review below, something broke this week which makes YT very hard to use with this extension on. Hopefully it can get fixed, but I do not want to lower my ***** for what is likely a temporary inconvenience.
It's a FANTASTIC extension...usually. During the past week something broke, and now all the thumbnails are inscrutably tiny and their text captions are cut off, and the extension won't reflect real-time current queues of hidden-vs-unwatched videos. I'd love it if the developer could kindly take a look and remedy this? Thanks!
Was great while it lasted! Seems Chrome is taking down this extension (along with many others like Adblockers), in the meantime it breaks thumbnails in your sub box. A workaround is to use the list view in the top right corner, but functionality is still broken. Thanks for all the work and the years of reliable updates! We appreciate your work!
Great for the subscription box and clearing out videos as I watch them, that said, it would be nice if I could set the extension to not hide videos away on channel pages, in that situation the red bar stating I've watched the video is enough. Sometimes I want to look at the back catalog of videos on a channel page, I can't do that with this extension.
The whole "mark as watched" button has started not appearing for some reason. It started maybe 2-3 days ago. After several reloads of the page and entering the plugin config page and making sure its updated etc.. (basically focusing on the mod), it suddenly appears again.. but if you close and reload the window it might dissapear again.
it is working on homepage and channel page. Can you enable this for suggestions also on video page?
Suddenly videos are not being hidden after I watched them I guess Youtube broke something again so I have to wait for the developer of this app to fix it worked great until today
Excellent extension. Couldn't possibly use the mess that is YT without it. 10 out of 10
version 19 broke everything
Used this for YEARS. Whatever update you pushed out today has DESTROYED my entire youtube homepage screen, NOTHING is visible anymore, as in, every single thumbnail of every single video gets removed. Removing this extension and suddenly youtube homepage is back to how it should be.
Used this for YEARS. Whatever update you pushed out today has DESTROYED my entire youtube homepage screen, NOTHING is visible anymore, as in, every single thumbnail of every single video gets removed. Removing this extension and suddenly youtube homepage is back to how it should be.
Awesome developer, couldn't use YT without this.
Awesome developer, couldn't use YT without this.
Same as the last two reviews. Love the extension but as of 2023-08-29 it is broken, so giving a review for visibility. Edit: Fixed 2023-08-31. Great turnaround.
Same as the last two reviews. Love the extension but as of 2023-08-29 it is broken, so giving a review for visibility. Edit: Fixed 2023-08-31. Great turnaround.
I cant imagine Youtube without this extension !!! Always fast patch !
I cant imagine Youtube without this extension !!! Always fast patch !
Makes navigating youtube a lot more pleasant. Currently broken (29/8/2023), but so far the dev has been quick with the turn-around time. Edit: fixed within two days!
Makes navigating youtube a lot more pleasant. Currently broken (29/8/2023), but so far the dev has been quick with the turn-around time. Edit: fixed within two days!
I have to say, if YouTube hired people even HALF as consistent and time sensitive as OsaSoft, they could actually justify charging 80 dollars for TV. This developer takes good care of this extension as well as his other projects. Extremely quick response to issues and super kind too! Děkuji!!!
I have to say, if YouTube hired people even HALF as consistent and time sensitive as OsaSoft, they could actually justify charging 80 dollars for TV. This developer takes good care of this extension as well as his other projects. Extremely quick response to issues and super kind too! Děkuji!!!
This extension is amazing, but as of today, it seems to have broken, for the Sub feed and on Channel Video Feeds. The options in the upper-right are still there- but it no longer actually hides videos, and doesn't pop up the button to mark videos as watched.
This extension is amazing, but as of today, it seems to have broken, for the Sub feed and on Channel Video Feeds. The options in the upper-right are still there- but it no longer actually hides videos, and doesn't pop up the button to mark videos as watched.
This is so underrated
This is so underrated
Watched Videos are not staying hidden
Watched Videos are not staying hidden
Even after updating, it seems this is still broken on Channel pages. Not gonna really hold that against it, as I mainly use it for Subscriptions feed.
Wonderful plugin but as of 01/11/2022 it no longer works. Looks like Youtube have had another page update. Hopefully the developer updates this
Wonderful plugin but as of 01/11/2022 it no longer works. Looks like Youtube have had another page update. Hopefully the developer updates this
Simple extension that adds a "hide watched video" radio button. It is working for channels, but not for the front page and some other functionality is broken such as the putting the GUI on the right menu. I did not test the mark all as watched button but the eyeball button works. While I won't really be using this app regularly I may come back to it for a particularly packed channel.
Simple extension that adds a "hide watched video" radio button. It is working for channels, but not for the front page and some other functionality is broken such as the putting the GUI on the right menu. I did not test the mark all as watched button but the eyeball button works. While I won't really be using this app regularly I may come back to it for a particularly packed channel.
Does not work. Doesn't do anything
Does not work. Doesn't do anything
Great app. Must have.
Great app. Must have.
No longer works ands hasnt for some time now. Only works when browsing someone's youtube channel page which makes it useless.
No longer works ands hasnt for some time now. Only works when browsing someone's youtube channel page which makes it useless.
Nothing intristing❗
