Magic Actions for YouTube™

While technically not containing any adware or anything that is dangerous, I would have to recommend staying away from this one. There are plenty of alternatives that do not try to trick you into thinking that the message you are seeing is from Chrome. While I do agree with their right to advertise their other products via an occasional popup from their FREE extension, I do not agree with the misleading way they handle it. True, there is no actual claim that the window is coming from Chrome itself, but the ad was very clearly intentionally designed to get people to jump to that conclusion. The extension itself is really great. I tend to spend hours working at my desk with youtube opened on a spare monitor and it's frustrating to have to change the quality everytime a new video starts. I have fiber internet. I have a 5 GIG per second connection. No youtube, it's not me. There were a lot of other features that I didn't even know I wanted until I tried them out. TLDR: Extension itself is great - 10/10 Advertising practices of the company - 0/10 Please consider a less misleading ad and I will gladly come back and change this review.

Magic Actions for YouTube offers handy features like custom controls and playback tweaks, but it comes with serious security risks. After installing, it injected adware that repeatedly opened scam tabs such as fake Chrome update pages. This is clear malware behaviour. I removed it and the problem stopped. Do not install this extension.

Reddit says it cant be trusted after they added the spammy popups with fake updates

The retarded "Helpful" AI suggestions that appear everytime I close a youtube tab and come back on everytime I DISABLE them - ruined this app completely. Absolute dogshit.

FILLED WITH MALWARE SPAMS

Seems this extension has become malware.

Does what it is supposed to with regards to Youtube, too bad it acts like malware and gives scary "YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR BROWSER" popups. Shame.

Extension randomly opens website that has potentially not safe ads

This extension forces a pop-up saying that your computer has a virus and to click the button below. I don't care how good the extension itself is, it should be removed from the store and I've already flagged this to Google.

I was waiting for months and years to be able to disable the "ai suggestions" but looks like the developer either abandoned the project or just does not care. I switched to a similar extension to have the same functionality without the annoyance and a cleaner settings page without the bloat.

After installing this extension I had constant popup about update my chrome. feels very suspicious. will be unisntalling.

pop-up spam that i didn't ask for and can't disable

As with all other reviews, constant ads. I tolerated them until now as Magic Actions doesn't do the one thing I like having it for, letting me change volume with the scroll wheel. Happily uninstalling.

Would give this half a star if I could. It was a pretty handy addon before all of the deceptive pop-ups advertising straight up garbage, designed to trick less savvy people into bloating their browser with nonsense. As others have already said there are plenty of other addons available that cover the same features and DON'T spam you with popups. Avoid.

As all above, DO NOT install due to pop-ups being impossible to turn off and ruining a great extension I've had for years

What others said: pop-up spam that cannot be disabled (there is a "fake" option that supposedly allows to turn it off but it doesn't work).

Great plugin, but I can no longer tolerate the relentless pop-up spam about Chrome being out of date (even when its not, confirmed in "About"). Congrats, you'all played yourself. I only really use 2 features anyway. Volume scrolling with mouse and Search on YouTube ID. Both of which are covered via extensions that don't spam popups: Youtube Volume Scroll- ID: agadcopafaojndinhloilcanpfpbonbk Search on YouTube- ID: ebgngjpjlbehmgehnpeckhdhmnoecngd

Started spamming popup ads for what I'm pretty sure is malware. Goodbye.

If you install this app, prepare for a bunch of nonstop popup ads. It's crazy.

Magic Skip 5 Sterne

Would rate zero, but minimum is 1 star... Used to be a top notch addon, until the author added all these stupid popups, about needing to update Chrome (even when your not running Chrome, such as when your running Brave, or another Chromium based browser), and revoking access for untrusted apps, etc... Seems like more and more MA has become a Google shill, instead of a useful addon... Am removing it as it is now an untrusted app in my book, and switching to another tool such as Enhancer...

Magic Actions is an otherwise great extension ruined by incredibly suspicious popups with malicious-looking content. It does do all that it claims to do, but it brings a real risk with it that could draw in innocent users. The incredibly high ranking is very suspicious with such weird ads.

Are we ever going to see a fix for the problem with the settings page for the extension??? When you click the "load options" button the page reloads and nothing changes. I've been checking this for 2 months straight!

Constant Annoying pop up. Before they messed up it used to be pretty good

Options don´t work and an annoying popup constantly asks to update the browser (It is already up to date)

I've taken a look at source code and these morons intentionally made it impossible to disable popups. I recommend switching to Enhancer for YouTube, however I've really enjoyed magic actions for many years, but that's enough for me.

Intrusive pop ups telling me to scan my chrome browser or something..

An extention I had been using for years but the "Scan and Update" pop-up became WAY too much. (To preface I am using Opera GX which is Chromium based in which I have had NO other extentions have issues like this, like at all.) Instead I recommend the Enhancer for YouTube because it has a lot of the same features without that annoying pop-up. - Themes - Volume scroll wheel - Resolution options at desired quality I also think Enhancer for YouTube from what I have tried seems to load YouTube faster than what Magic Actions can, at least it seems faster to me. (Especially live streams) I really hate the enshitification of products over the years and this one is one such case from my experience, and what it seems for many other reviewers lately of this extention.

This extension has devolved into Adware and gives popups to "scan and update".

I love YouTube! It is a great place for talented people to be seen and heard by millions of people. It is always funny and entertaining. Many thanks for creating this terrific extension and sharing it with us! Works extremely well on slow connections(wifi). I can now watch a YouTube movie mostly without any lagging or buffering (Rocket mode) and the "SKIP" button is perfect. GET IT NOW!!

The extension itself is very nice but the Pop up ads are ANNOYING. They are useless and it's impossible to disable them. The developers of this application made it intentionally to not allow the disabling of pop up windows. I recommend to use instead the extension: Enhancer for YouTube™ It has the same capabilities and without intrusive pop up windows.

After many years of using this cool extensions, it became too annoying recently by randomly opening new chrome windows, forcing me to update Chrome while it's updated. I mean this extension should not worry about my chrome version, let alone allow it to open new windows and interrupt me while using the browser. So one big fat 1 from me for becoming annoying extension.

Works fine, but started opening an "Update your chrome now!" tab every time my non-chrome chromium browser does something.

The extension is very good, but I would like you to have an option just to enable theater mode, that's all. I am having to use another extension for this. It would be cool if it was implemented. Just the theater mode, that's all. Without movie mode. hugs.

This app is one of the most useful ones I'm using. I am short on the words because usually I comment on apps that I have problems with. This app is doing a great job, much better than I actually expected, to be honest. It is one of the very few and rare apps that I am completely satisfied with, and a rare one that have a 5 stars from me, and a comment without any complains. I really hope this app will stay this good forever, or at least, for a long, long time. Edit: I had to turn of the extension because it makes youtube videos open in theater mode. I'm not taking back any stars as I saw in other comments that the developers know about the problem and they're already on it. I will check occasionally if the glitch is solved, and must say the honest responses from the developers are highly appreciated (one of the reason I'm leaving 5 stars)...

The popups are so annoying. I'll update when I'm ready to update. I'm fine with having this feature if I can disable it, but otherwise please remove it. It's simply obnoxious.

Used it for so long, was good, now its just pop ups everywhere, very intrusive

I refuse to watch YouTube without it. Especially music videos. The enhancement of the lighting is worth it alone, but add all the other features in and you have one cool extension for Chrome. The day/night switch. Brilliant. Cinema mode? Why not. Screen captures...sure thing. I'm telling you that once you try it you won't want to view without it.

The extension is a great idea and adds a lot of very useful features that work perfect. However, the extension constantly makes annoying popup windows begging the user to check out new features of the extension, show ads, or update their browser. This is highly disruptive and abusive and is unacceptable. Uninstalled. I discovered and installed Enhancer For Youtube instead, which has all the same features and more, without being a spammy piece of malware.

Used to be great before youtube optimized their platform but now its becoming a over-monetized shell of its former self with no way to stop the AI-based "helpful" reminders to clear cache and update your browser. Use something else.

I hope for DEVs to bring back working good, less interactive version. 1 year and no updates too.

I'm forced to edit my 11 year old, 5 star review. It's a shame. There's no need to tell me to update anything. I never asked you to. All you were supposed to do was make youtube a little more customizable. Very disappointing. I hate the popups so much I'd give it a zero star review if I could. :(

Used to be great but has now been ruined by constant pop-ups

Used to be good now has pop ups all the time.

It's the best of its kind. Simple amazing and helful tool.

Click "Show more" to read this entire review! TRUST THE OTHER LOW RATED REVIEWS MAGIC ACTIONS FOR YOUTUBE IS PURE GARBAGE! STAY AWAY & DO NOT INSTALL THIS EXTENSION OR ANY OTHER SOFTWARE IT TELLS YOU TO. DO NOT SCAN YOUR COMPUTER WHEN PROMPTED! YOU HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY WARNED! What used to be an okay extension now displays a constant bombardment of atrocious annoying popups with extremely deceiving ads leading you to unfunctional and abandoned sites https://loaderchrome.com/ or others https://www.chromeactions.com/ prompting to install additional software claiming your browser version is out of date (mine is always kept updated). The inappropriate advertisements are misleading and deceptive and simply not worth the few minor improvements to youtube (i only use the A-B loop). It's a terrible business model and I am sure would have plenty of more bad reviews if the current users could actually identify where their popups are stemming from. Too bad, had potential but a complete slap in the face to its users. Uninstall it as quickly as possible and seek an alternative that doesn't engage in this type of activity! Too many developers build trust and after they have acquired plenty of positive scores and reviews they either sell out or pull the bait and switch scheme Do NOT install this https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/magic-actions-for-youtube/abjcfabbhafbcdfjoecdgepllmpfceif/ Read the other reviews and sort them from Lowest to highest ratings https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/magic-actions-for-youtube/abjcfabbhafbcdfjoecdgepllmpfceif/reviews You can Flag/report it here to hopefully get it removed from the Chrome Webstore so others don't suffer or become potential victims of this abuse. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/abjcfabbhafbcdfjoecdgepllmpfceif/report I wouldn't even bother emailing a complaint to them at [email protected] as they'll probably bombard you with more spam! Here is an alternative Enhancer for YouTube https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/enhancer-for-youtube/ponfpcnoihfmfllpaingbgckeeldkhle

Constant popups.

used to be great. they completly destroyed it with the popups showing up everywhere and all day long with the Chrome update which is not even relate to the really version that you have.

new tag ads everytime opening chrome

This computer user has employed Magic Actions for YouTube extension for better than two years and, if memory properly serves, this is my first rating of the software. Magic Actions is superb, especially in the "We-Don't-Rest-On-Our-Laurels" department for the software team appears to constantly be working on "the next best thing." One is tempted to think that should Magic Actions ever find that "end-all, be-all" product they might actually start charging money for it. With respect to YouTube-associated products and as it currently stands, Magic Actions is, simply, the best YouTube-extension software I've yet used.