Control Panel for YouTube

How to install Open in Chrome Web Store

CRX ID

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Description from extension meta

Gives you more control over YouTube by adding missing options and UI improvements

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Features

Ads:

• Block ads
• Hide Sponsored videos & promos
• Hide Merch, Offers etc. (desktop version)

New video player UI:

• Disable new progress bar and controls (desktop version) - Note: this will stop working when YouTube removes the old player UI
• Hide new full screen controls
• Hide "More videos" in full screen
• Always use compact Play button (desktop version)
• Remove background from controls (desktop version)
• Restore Miniplayer button (desktop version)
• Restore corner click to toggle full screen (desktop version)
• Hide full screen title (desktop version)
• Hide full screen like/dislike buttons (desktop version)

Annoyances:

• Hide AI summaries
• Remove pink gradient from progress bars
• Hide information panels
• Hide Premium upsells
• Disable themed hover effects (desktop version)
• Restore small thumbnails in Related (desktop version)
• Automatically pause channel trailers (desktop version)
• Allow background playback (mobile version)
• Hide Open App links (mobile version)

Video lists:

• Hide suggested sections
• Hide Live videos
• Hide Streamed videos
• Hide Mixes
• Hide Playlists
• Hide Movies and TV
• Hide Upcoming videos
• Hide Members only videos
• Hide Auto-dubbed videos in Related
• Hide watched videos
• Hide hidden videos - Hides the "Undo" button after 5 seconds
• Hide channels - Adds "Hide channel" to video menus
• Disable Home feed
• Search thumbnail size (desktop version)
• Minimum grid items per row (desktop version)
• Hide Collaborations in Subscriptions (desktop version)
• Hide Posts in Home (mobile version)

Video pages:

• Disable Autoplay
• Disable Ambient mode
• Hide Related videos
• Hide the Next button
• Hide channel watermark
• Hide Share/Thanks/Clip etc.
• Hide video metadata
• Hide Comments
• Always use theater mode (desktop version)
• Full size theater mode (desktop version)
• Disable enlarged UI in theater mode (desktop version)
• Always use original audio (desktop version)
• Hide video end cards (desktop version)
• Hide video endscreen content (desktop version)
• Hide Chat (desktop version)
• Add Take snapshot to video menu (JPEG / PNG) (desktop version)
• Make Transcript downloadable (desktop version)
• Hide Posts in Home (mobile version)

Shorts:

• Hide Shorts
• Redirect Shorts to the normal player
• Hide suggested actions
• Hide link to related Short by the same channel
• Always show progress bar
• Stop Shorts looping
• Hide Remix button (desktop version)
• Hide Shorts metadata until hover (desktop version)
• Minimum Shorts per row (desktop version)

UI tweaks:

• Show full video titles
• Use square corners for thumbnails and videos
• Hide categories in Home
• Hide channel banner images
• Hide Search with your voice
• Link YouTube logo to Subscriptions (desktop version)
• Tidy Guide sidebar (desktop version)
• Hide "Latest" bar in Subscriptions (desktop version)
• Use grid view for Subscriptions & Search (portrait only) (mobile version)
• Hide Explore button in Home (mobile version)
• Hide channel list in Subscriptions (mobile version)

Embedded videos:

• Hide Share button
• Hide pause overlay

Latest reviews

Lihapulla Kulho (Bullar) 2026-01-29: Restoring "Prioritize -> Upload Date" was the feature I got this extension for and it works perfectly. Other options for reducing garbage I never asked for are great too; I can't even remember how long it has been since I've been able to see so many video entries on a single page (screen and resolution sizes have kept increasing yet ironically YT wants to autofill it with 6 gigantic thumbnails).
Holger Bienek 2026-01-26: Why does something called "Control Panel" hide the autoplay button? The button already gave me control over if i want autoplay or not. This literally takes away my choice and my control.
Mustafa K.Damour 2026-01-24: The extension is huge and has too many options. Please add a (fuzzy) search option to increase it's productivity
Jason Z 2026-01-24: I like the “Restore ‘Upload date’ search filter” feature.
A 2026-01-24: Truly incredible. I really like how I can change the number of videos in a row within a grid.
prototype27 2026-01-23: Fantastic, but I'd love if there were more options for how to filter collaboration videos in Subscriptions than just "show all" or "hide all". I want to see collaboration videos posted to channels I subscribe to, but not those posted to channels I don't subscribe to.
Crystallite X 2026-01-23: Please add sort by last hour filter date as well, please
Red 2026-01-22: Restore Upload Date search filter doesn't work
Jhon Smith 2026-01-18: Sort by Upload Date not working for CentBrowser(((
Weaver Of Zampanio 2026-01-17: Installed this for its re-enabling of sort by upload date (I like researching defunct video games and using upload date in tandem with before:year is my best way of getting everything in a consistent order) and as an extra plus am able to uninstall my other extension that blocked shorts, since this one already has that feature! Haven't poked around much with the other settings, but I definitely appreciate this level of additional control.
rad iohead 2026-01-17: can you remove the " most relevant " on the subscriptions page pls
Peter Lemmen 2026-01-11: This one makes theatre view usable again!
Deniz Oguz 2025-12-30: It removes shorts, that is the best thing for youtube for a long time.
Abel Lee 2025-12-30: Thank you, i'm soo sick of looking at youtube shorts. I've installed this on all my parent's PCs to prevent them from falling into the Shorts trap.
Vincent X 2025-12-28: this extension is amazing, can't wait for more updates in the future, hopefully like having the old smaller video player size since YT recently made it 2X times bigger. other then that keep up the good work.
Elodie Fiorella 2025-12-19: Generally useful in most areas of YouTube. I downloaded it in October hoping there'd be a feature to restore the old Add to Playlist functionality, but it hasn't happened yet. If the devs can add a toggle that prevents the Save to Playlist window from closing itself every time I add or remove a video, this would be the perfect all-in-one extension for YT.
Byron Kelley (PapaBear562) 2025-12-18: This worked for me! I was livid when YT changed the layout and moved "Subscriptions" above "You" on the left sidebar. This moved it back, thank you!
Chris Figaro 2025-12-17: How do you not have an option to stop automatic playing of videos?
Alexandru Popa 2025-12-15: On paper it's excelent with all the features and tweaks BUT in practice crashes the YT page after a while. Refresh doesn't work thus close that tab and load the page again.
Noah C 2025-12-10: Has really useful and straightforward features!
piyawut linjongvorakul 2025-12-04: Still working on putting youtube left tools in original place. Good extention.
Bangtan Addict 2025-12-02: anything to fix youtube's UI updates
Artem 2025-11-29: God bless you for fixing all YT ugliness. I don't know what YT devs are doing but I just hope you will help us survive it
somebody who once told you 2025-11-26: the new youtube AI "summary", autodubbed and member's only videos, player UI, UI size, the amount of buttons i dont use, automatically putting on mixes, shorts UI, searching... youtube is very feature bloated and this is a breath of fresh air. most settings are self-explanatory and there's no setup needed for the extension, it just changes whatever you don't like and doesn't beg for anything in return.
rand dea 2025-11-15: Why doesn't 'Disable Autoplay' work? That's the only reason I downloaded it! I'm using Chrome.
Alka 2025-11-15: Just what i needed, recommended
Пользыватель 2025-11-12: It's almost 2026 and there's no backup or settings import, and no Russian language.
Zachary Fino 2025-11-07: miss the old theater mod; dont like scrolling down into more recommended videos.
Ahmed Alhai 2025-11-05: The option to change your subscriptions back to old style is all I ever needed and I thank you for making this!
Shkelqim Mula 2025-10-30: Just what I was missing!
Provided Hand 2025-10-25: The only feature I actually need doesn't work (hiding members-only videos)
Jessica Hudson 2025-10-24: Basically a requirement to use youtube now
Plasmen Kostadinov 2025-10-24: Cool idea, but it didn't work for member videos
Rosegold Beats 2025-10-23: no more shorts thank the lord
Ayden Williams 2025-10-23: Could use a better settings menu. Feature to remove Members Only video recommendations doesn't work. Other than that, this is great!
Opal 2025-10-22: Very glad I was able to get rid of that ugly new UI. However, the feature to remove Members Only video recommendations doesn't work. It would also be nice to have a feature to remove auto-dubbed video recommendations. I've seen extensions that return those to the original titles, but I don't want to listen to an AI dub anyway and I won't be able to understand the original language audio, so they just shouldn't be there.
Brett Rm 2025-10-22: Amazing amount of options, all work well
Doctor Eggman 2025-10-22: My sanity is saved!
Gloomy 2025-10-21: very useful and clean af, i installed twitter version too
Void 2025-10-17: Works great, lots of utility. Thank you.
Hemam Xsk 2025-10-06: BESTEST XXXTENSION IN ZA HOLE VARLDDD!!!
Andy C 2025-09-20: it is working great in Firefox and Chrome!
Will 2025-09-05: So far, this is the only extension I have found that blocks those annoying "upcoming" premiere videos that just started showing up in my Subscription feed. For that reason alone, this gets 5 stars and is now a mandatory extension for me. Can't wait to see what Google does next to ruin YouTube.
Shannen 2025-09-01: Could we get a default speed option ?
Joey Cheung 2025-08-27: Oddly stopped hiding channels recently. I guess a change on youtube messed up that feature.
Thomas van Deursen 2025-08-10: good extension, but questionable default settings. Was wondering for a while why ambient & autoplay were broken on youtube, ended up being these are disabled by the extension by default.
Max Volodin 2025-08-02: Please let us hide «More videos» section under the video player (fullscreen & theater) which was added in the new UI update of YouTube!
John Davis 2025-07-18: This WILL trigger YouTube adblock sniffers so if that happens, go to the settings and uncheck ALL except the following: 1. Skip ads 2. Disable Autoplay 3. Hide video end cards 4. Hide video endscreen content As for how many videos per page in Main page, use the "Minimum grid items per row" under Video lists. I use this alongside AdBlock for youtube and everything works fine in Chrome.
Melissa 2025-07-18: Allows me to change how many videos show up in my home feed. "minimum grid items per row"
Val Rick 2025-07-14: UNREAL! LOVING THE SIMPLICITY! Thank you!

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