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Refine your Youtube experience! Block ads, fix clickbaity video titles, show accurate video views, and more with Youtube™ Refined!
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⚠️NOTICE: This extension is not under active development. Many features work partially or not at all. Use at your own risk.
Refine your Youtube experience! Block ads, fix clickbaity video titles, show accurate video views, and more with Youtube Refined!
Now open source! Check out the source code and contribute here: https://github.com/MarcGuiselin/youtube-refined
Youtube Refined is an extension for anyone that improves YouTube in a variety of ways for those who wish to be more productive and waste a bit less time on Youtube. Click on the little icon in the top-right hand corner of chrome to access Youtube Refined's many different settings.
Youtube refined is constantly updated and improved by me with input from all of you wonderful people! Reach me anytime at my email [email protected] or post a question/suggestion here on the Chrome Web Store.
Features:
• Easily completely block/unblock channels on YouTube
• Blur thumbnails from obnoxious channels
• See various stats about how long and who you watch
• Block ads on YouTube
• Ratings Preview
• See actual video views and age of video
• Autocorrect clickbaity youtube titles
• Hide comments section
• Various beautiful YouTube themes including Dark, Classic, and Sunset Fade
Upcoming features:
• Custom filter channel lists (Clickbait, Children, Top 10, Hate Speech, etc)
• More themes
• Kid mode to keep your kids safe from inappropriate videos on YouTube
• Custom suggestion feed (Stay up to date with your favorite channels!)
Changelog:
2.5 Final version 9/29/21
2.1 Beta - 9/29/2018
📈 Introducing the stats page!
2.0 Beta - 7/16/17
🚦 Introducing video filters!
🎛️ New full-page menu
🌅 Added new theme: Sunset Fade
1.9 Beta - 12/28/17
🎨 Introducing youtube themes! Dark and white.
📢 Added update notification
🎆 Wishing everyone a happy new year :)
1.8 Beta - 10/26/17
- Likes and dislikes can be shown accurately
- Rating previews implemented (You're welcome mini :) )
- A bugfix or two
1.6 Beta - 10/18/17
- Fixed bug that cause video title to remain unchanged
1.5 Beta - 10/18/17
- Now auto corrects video titles and videos on the youtube home page
- Improved ad blocking
1.4 Beta - 10/8/17
- Initial release
☎ Contact me at [email protected]
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YouTube Refined does not collect or share any information or analytics of its users. Promise ;)
Proud to be Ad and Analytics free :)
Latest reviews
- (2023-08-20) Adil Ehsan: Good EXtension for a wide range of options in youtube.
- (2022-01-06) Siti Nurhaliza: You should get a Nobel Prize!
- (2021-10-04) Ashton Davies - The World Of Wonders!: Mind if you update the manifest version to v3 if this extension uses v2?
- (2021-09-30) Bradley Auerbach: This was a good extension! Why did you discontinue/stop maintaining it?
- (2021-09-30) WildpawShecat: Out of all the Youtube ad blockers out there, THIS ONE does it PERFECTLY! Been using it for at least half a year now, almost forgot Youtube comes with ads at all! The filtering system I only use to try and remove all Youtube Mix playlists, does it's job well enough, but I guess since they're Mixes and not single videos it doesn't always block it. At least my feed isn't spammed with them anymore. For videos (non-mix) the filtering works perfectly tho. Honestly I got it for the ad blocker alone and it is SO WORTH IT! The thumbnail blurring and video title editor/autocorrect is flawless too. Next update suggestion: option to remove "are you still watching" perhaps? ;) Love it!
- (2021-09-27) martin kamuhuza: very good extension
- (2021-09-27) Erfaniom: pretty decent youtube experience enhancer
- (2021-09-04) Christian MacDonald: Solid extension
- (2021-08-16) Fabian Gärtner: Seems like this extension has been abandoned...
- (2021-08-07) Mike Flores: very impressed
- (2021-08-02) Somto Amobi: Just the extension i've been looking for to focus and be more productive with my youtube viewing
- (2021-07-25) Andrebeck27: Honestly, this is great. To get free donation features it asks you to share this on some other websites, min. 2, and i am going to share it on all of them, because it works flawlessly. Great job Marc!
- (2021-07-22) mikocafe: i love the app <3 they even thanked me for adding the extension
- (2021-07-20) [α̲̅l̲̅υ̲̅c̲̅α̲̅я̲̅d̲̅]: muinto bom
- (2021-06-30) Su1phur Tse: Simple and good
- (2021-06-25) Oliver “blitzy” Atkins: pucka
- (2021-05-18) Luca: some features dont seem to work, but the one that do work are great!
- (2021-04-18) Lightspeed: This extension is REALLY good and I REALLY REALLY like this extension. it has almost everything you want. it even feels like YouTube got updated. the only reason I give this 4 stars is because anytime I turn on "block all ads" , anytime I watch a video, at one point, the video will say "sorry. an error has occurred." I even restarted the site, HECK even uninstalled and reinstalled it and no matter what I do, it keeps saying the same thing whenever I turn it on. I hope the creator fixes this.
- (2021-04-17) • Galaxy The T1ger •: i cant say i dont like it BEACUSE I LOVE IT I HATE ADS AND IT HELPS ME BLOCK THEM I WAS SO HAPPY TO FIND THIS >:D
- (2021-04-11) Drake W: nice
- (2021-03-31) SnoopySeven: Good extension, really helped my youtube experience.
- (2021-03-28) Jivan Navij: Offers a lot of features! This extension looks promising!!!
- (2021-03-27) Javier Latorre: amazing luv u
- (2021-03-13) Toria: So far I haven't actually had a chance to use the app but it seems to have a lot of very useful parts to it as well as the developer working on even more, which I like. He seems very enthusiastic about the project, which is always good. So far, you can blur out thumbnails that you don't want to see or block pages you don't want shown, something you would expect YouTube to already allow that is doesn't easily do, and for that, I give you a 4! LOL.
- (2021-03-08) EJ NUNEZ: the most useful tool for you tube users.must have for all pc
- (2021-02-16) أنس صديق: حلو
- (2021-01-04) Vision: So far so good, it's really something that helps me lower down all the stuff I deem "unneeded" on Youtube and helps me clear it up so I can view what I please. I highly recommend for anyone to use this extension on any web browser.
- (2021-01-02) Ben Witschey: this extension is the BEST one for youtube!
- (2021-01-01) Milk: Loved how you can block a channel with a single click lmao it's too good
- (2020-12-29) Cmdr Tiger King: I liked how marc included some personality into the extension. It was nice.
- (2020-12-28) Matthew Ward: pog
- (2020-12-23) SoulsClarion: This makes YT great again!
- (2020-12-03) Anon Anon: Great
- (2020-11-12) Marcos Paz: EXCELENTE!!
- (2020-11-11) gnigger gnostical: this extension actually works as described. and the features are useful. that places it in a class above the overwhelming majority of youtube enhancement addons.
- (2020-11-01) Peter Ovcharov: It improved my workflow
- (2020-10-29) KorbShall: if you say king backwards, it sounds like sausage
- (2020-10-12) xdn lol: epio. it was awesome yaknow, i love this eextneison
- (2020-10-06) Clark Anderson: Great add on
- (2020-09-10) Feltric Fence: Thank you, you beautiful, beautiful man. It looks GREAT, finally I have the interface I actually want! xD I am slightly too young to donate now, but I can tell this is going to be a great project, so once I get my own money, you bet I'm gonna donate! Slightly irrelevant to what I was just saying: I have been searching for a comically long time for an extension that can make YouTube look like its classic 2006 iteration. I'm thinking that'd be a cool, unique feature for this extension, but I understand if that's too difficult to pull off. This is still a great extension and I will still enjoy it, and donate when I get older. c :
- (2020-08-19) Savanna Donathan: I use this extension to block out triggering phobia thumbnails on Youtube. Anyone else with true arachnophobia probably understands that YT seems to constantly bombard people with clickbaity horror videos of spider stuff, and seeing those thumbnails can be extremely stressful. By setting up parameters for words like spider, tarantula, huntsman, etc. I no longer have to see those images, I just see a blurred thumbnail with a title that I've set ("Blocked tag in YTR" for me, but you can make it say whatever you like). So I don't have to see the images and I don't have to read titles like "OMG 2,000 spiders crawled out of her nose!!" or whatever. I know that this isn't really the intended purpose of the extension, but it has been such a HUGE help to me, and I recommend it for anyone who wants to avoid phobia-related anxiety. It's easy to set up, very clear and intuitive, and it's completely unobtrusive. Love it.
- (2020-08-19) Clark Anderson: i love this Add on, i would like to see 2 new features in the future update, 1. Turn on "Add To Playlist" on every video 2. Change Player Size Option Permanently.
- (2020-08-14) Jordan C: Super useful, thank you
- (2020-07-06) Abdallah Nickner: Great that he gives the option to leave a review or share online instead of donating to receive special options. YouTube now looks Beautiful and it removes so many stupid things YouTube has done!
- (2020-07-02) Tuxedo Mask: I would appreciate an option to filter only for videos from channels I've never watched so that I can find new things
- (2020-06-30) Andrew Kerns: i would like to see a new feature that would keep the player in its original format
- (2020-06-30) Sallero S: Youtube™ Refined is smooth, handsome, feature-based that needs only a few details, such as filter channels sidebar search results and best button, finding mainly the verified ones, for instance, Disney, Cirque du Soleil, MovieClips, Apple, TikTok last week trends, etc., etc., etc. helping me find the best of the best (channels).
- (2020-06-24) Andrew Kerns: An Amazing Add on, there is only one feature i'd like to add is the feature to turn on old player,
- (2020-04-16) Orxan Qarazade: Very experience extension
- (2020-04-03) itayos2: seems good