Control Panel for YouTube

How to install Open in Chrome Web Store

CRX ID

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Status

Live on Store

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

C T 2026-02-17: Joining other unhappy reviewers, suddenly enabling every option by default for existing users was a really dumb move. The only reason I have this in addition to Unhook is the option to hide AI summaries, but I think I will look for something else now because hiding random buttons that I use all the time, like "share", really pissed me off.
Blue Ant 2026-02-16: Great extension, made my YouTube videos load way faster since I could disable three other extension that allowed to have more than 3 huge videos thumbnails per row on the homepage and disable auto translation and auto dubs by using Control Panel for YouTube. I have no idea why YouTube is making the UI worse with each new update. Would be awesome to have an option to display the dislikes on Desktop below the normal video view (not full screen) again. There is currently another working extension that does this (I know that the numbers may not be accurate but usually gives a good impression if a video is worth watching or not) but that has become somewhat sketchy recently by opening new tabs with ads.
Disent Design 2026-02-16: Update BROKE this, as every one mentioned below PLUS Now playlists wont load with the extension, it doesn't matter if I tick or untick "hide playlist" option. Some options still work but overall it makes you tube worse, not better.
Rissa Weirich 2026-02-15: This extension was great until the most recent update which has now caused end screen content to not show up when signed in youtube even if the option to remove the content isn't enabled. I've had to disable this entire extension just to see the end screen content which is sad because I really loved this extension.
Robbie Woods 2026-02-15: Genuinely dont understand why you would implement by default changes to users like the logo going to subscriptions instead of home? This is not the only youtube related addon I have, how on earth am I meant to know what is causing the behaviour when it starts occuring for seemingly no reason and the setting is near the bottom with no indication its new? Just give any indication that you made the change or that the setting is new. Adding/removing features with no indication at all while being buggy as hell is starting to make me question why I have this addon instead of just using filters.
Shayna Trisker 2026-02-15: YouTube is continually making the interface more and more unfriendly and intrusive, this extension has been genuinely so great to be able to customize exactly what I want and don't want to see to keep it closer to the way it used to be.
Stanislav Demchenko 2026-02-14: Used this app to fix 5 videos per row. Until recent (today) update everything was fine. Now it somehow changes my feed + added new weird issues (like opening subs instead of landing page). Hope this update worth it, dear devs. Have no idea why you intentionally break things that work.
Brazen NL 2026-02-14: Excellent extension. Thanks for bringing back list view for subs!
Hayes 2026-02-14: Extension was fine for months and suddenly now is forcing popups without user consent. The browser wasn't even on screen and it's forcing popups, minimizing other applications.
hzhnr iar 2026-02-12: BRING BACK THE SORT BY UPLOAD DATE FEATURE
Maik Husein 2026-02-10: Just Installed it because of the "Sort by upload date" Feature. They Removed it 1 Day after. No Explanation in Update Log or Support Thread.
Anthony Mounkes 2026-02-09: Was great until they removed "Sort by upload date" feature, as others have pointed out.
Prussian Mapping 2026-02-08: Yall should add the old search filter back. So basically bring back sort by upload date and sort by view count
Mikael Korhonen 2026-02-07: It was really good but now I'm missing the 'sort by upload date' filter. Big miss because that was the reason I downloaded this...
Gala 2026-02-07: where did the 'sort by upload date' filter go oh my god
hamza ziane 2026-02-06: "sort by date" filter? BRING IT BACK :(
Danny 2026-02-06: Unfortunately, classic Google doing stupid things made the only reason I had this extension not work anymore. I'll still give it 5 stars because it's perfect when sorting by upload date works. Hopefully the developer is aware of this and will be able to get that back.
Vernandus 2026-02-06: did they force you to remove the "sort by date" filter? do they have your family?
Santino Eli 2026-02-06: BRO WHERE DID RESTORE UPLOAD DATE GO!?!?😭
Andrew Robert 2026-02-05: Only downloaded this to get the "sort by upload date" back and now that does not work anymore. Will be uninstalling.
Cato Alsén 2026-02-05: Sort by upload date removed in last update?
Rose huml 2026-02-05: I’ve been using the extension mainly to for the search filter from the newest upload date that YouTube removed. Now it’s no longer working and has disappeared from the extension menu. Please bring it backk
Julia Michaelis 2026-02-05: As others said, Restore "Upload Date" search filter isn't working because Youtube removed it completely even via URL changes. It was very useful :( Your extension is such a lifesaver when Youtube screws up, I hope you will update it soon.
J C 2026-02-05: gigachad
Jerzy P 2026-02-05: Thank you for returning to us a sense of control and ability to list view my subscriptions after the recent REMOVAL, bruv :(
Brennan Fensling 2026-02-05: fantastic - only thing we need now is the description on videos back, and it's like we've delayed youtube's enshittification
Sonic Lakhani (Sonicfan0250) 2026-02-05: Restore "Upload Date" search filter is not working for me anymore!
l 2026-02-05: Restore "Upload date" search filter can't work for me:(
Angelica Lasher 2026-02-04: Was working fine until today, Restore Related Sidebar Layout has been broken and is text only now. I'm back to forced large icons or just text, my only options. I hope it can be fixed because its the whole reason I got this was for accessibility.
NO MΛ 2026-02-02: the "Hide channel" option under 3 dots menu does not show on first page load, multiple clicks of the dots are needed to make it appear.
festral ala 2026-01-30: 5 star only for sorting by upload date
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.

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