Replicate old YouTube look and features within the modern layout!
Tired of looking for working alternatives to restore old Youtube layout? Embrace the current one modified in order to replicate multiple old styles while still actually using the modern Youtube interface.
Features include:
★ Customizable settings!
★ Classic video page layout along with its alternative version that mimics even older layouts
★ Small video player with size presets and pillarboxing
★ Disabling infinite scrolling for comments and related videos
★ Custom number of videos per row on the home page (from default 4 to 1-10)
★ True fullscreen mode
★ Automatic video unpausing during long sessions
★ Ability to restore classic YouTube logo and favicons
★ Precise, non-truncated values for likes/dislikes on the video page
★ Dark theme for playlists that matches old design
★ Hide the 'Autoplay' or 'Play on TV' button
★ Visual changes to home page, search results, channel page, explore pages and others
★ ...and more!
Latest reviews
- (2024-10-20) YH T: There an update for latest crash, good job creator.
- (2024-10-19) manuel forero: Hey, just an update, I don't know what's up with the extension, but it's causing YouTube to be really unresponsive to me as a result. Edit: So it has to do with settings with the Sidebar, currently disabling them for right now. Can you be sure to look into this? Edit: The YouTube Redux is causing playlists to not autoplay! Edit: It's being unresponsive again today. I think it might have something to do with a YouTube update. (It's with Restore YouTube Dislikes, focus on that.)
- (2024-03-28) Ty S: This extension did indeed do what it promoted and said what it will do. But sadly, the new UI and interface YouTube just added in the new update completely broke the extension and now it's just a complete jumbled mess lol. I'll bump this review back up to 5 stars once the Dev updates this extension and gets' it working again. 5/10/2023 Edit: Everything works now, but there's just two problems. I'm unable to see dislikes, & the top bar remains dark on Theater Mode when in Light Mode. 3/27/2024: it's been breaking constantly over the past few months with little updates removing some bugs, but adding some more in so i'm gonna have to take this down to 3 stars for now until its fully functional. half of the features just straight up don't work anymore even after a reinstall so idk if this is my cup of tea anymore.
- (2024-03-22) Matthew Roughton (ArbestRiAgain): CustomTube is better, but if you want to disable that ugly new watch UI and you use uBlock Origin add this into your custom filter: youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false)
- (2023-11-15) Amani Boitel: it brings us back to the old times and like it
- (2023-11-15) Lestrade: Muito bom, mas deveria existir a opção de mudar a epóca do tema e deixar a aparencia dos vídeos e a barra de progresso no modo mais antigo.
- (2023-11-11) anita forgione: Ok I written this a while ago (not really) But it does work and something happened but it's good now! It works super well, except the logo but I use an extension to get the old logo so W
- (2023-10-29) Jokuc :3: Great addon, but some features do not work. For example "move play next", "border around sub count", "remove text of like/view count". Videos previews do not work on the front page when you hover over videos, only in search results. I wish there was a way to set the background color to the modern dark instead of the grey one on front page, search and video page.
- (2023-10-29) Alice Liddell: Favor atualizar, o youtube está enchendo o saco com adblock.
- (2023-10-28) H M: good but my yt icon is not the old one
- (2023-10-27) TheNitpickyCat: I Love This. Can you please add "youtube search bar in the middle" option.
- (2023-10-27) ItsYee ee: works with dark mode! also removes the adblock warning! (with an adblocker ofc)
- (2023-10-25) DelimanCZ: What happened with the video description section now that it is displayed so wrong? Is it because of the last update or just YouTube showing their stupidity as usual? It is mess, only yesterday it was still good.
- (2023-10-25) maya: Reminds me of 2016! as far as I can tell, I don't see any errors or glitches and everything works perfectly fine for me
- (2023-10-25) Dean: Fantastic extension! Really great work on this, the only things I might add are the classic video playtime bar and the option to tweak text sizes, but overall this is awesome!
- (2023-10-25) clover: its good but why is there an unesscary long horozontial scroll bar for specific videos? i havent had this issue until like 3 days ago
- (2023-10-24) Mason Squier: Loved the extension. But now there is a new issue: When signed in the "recreate old video page layout" breaks. Hope this will be updated!
- (2023-10-21) Alexander: Расширение отличное, но увы гугл что-то нахимичил и на ютубе с включённым расширением нельзя посмотреть автора видео и описание видео
- (2023-10-20) Renzo Davila: todo bien, pero tambien deberian agregar la version del 2019
- (2023-10-18) Elijah Wallen: I like how this makes YouTube look older and more square, however there are still a few adjustments needed like some buttons or other layouts are still round. Overall, this is a pretty decent extension to make this look like old YouTube.
- (2023-10-14) Today Walling: LOVED IT it supports dark mode and i had no issuse at all! sometimes the Save, Download, Share button disappears but one refresh and it there. also it removes that stupid ad block pop up from youtube. and yeah thats all i liked about!
- (2023-10-14) Midnight Sarrow 160 (AutoCorrectThief): --It glitched tf out again now I have to suffer looking at yt's poor excuse for "better layouts"-- If I may make a request, could you add a feature to autoskip yt's anti ad popup?
- (2023-10-03) S: This extension is a MUST HAVE for youtube, due to that braindead company destroying their UI on a regular basis.
- (2023-10-01) Evan Westcomb: It's fine, though there is now a new extension that does this but better: https://github.com/lightbeam24/CustomTube/issues/66
- (2023-09-29) Karen Evans: I hate this new extension. I cannot see all my subscriptions in the left column. Its giving me a blinding headache, trying to take it back to the old YouTube.
- (2023-09-22) Natsu Dragneel: It needs an update. It doesnt show youtube dislike with redux enabled
- (2023-09-13) Enzo Hdz alvarez: te hace volver al pasado es muy guapo eso pero los dislikes no se muestra cuando los confuguras
- (2023-09-07) Михаил Егоров: ютуб что-то намудрил и теперь страница с видео нормально отображается если не входить в аккаунт
- (2023-09-01) jaden marlett: i like it its pretty good just i cant go to the descriptions of videos
- (2023-09-01) i j: It disrupts the functionality of this extension: YTME - Youtube Theater Mode Expander
- (2023-08-31) Kiwi Gato: esta bien pero necesita una actualización porque las descripciones y el botón de subscribirse no aparecen
- (2023-08-31) Fabian Wenzel: If you use the YouTube Redux extension permanently, as I do, at a certain point the settings wheel in the YouTube video player disappears. This makes it impossible to adjust the video quality and to enable or disable subtitles, which is annoying. The rest of the extension works flawlessly. I love this extension because finally I can see the YouTube user interface again the way I like it best.
- (2023-08-26) Алексей Мурин: расширение отличное, но есть кривости, на пример новый сайт бар нельзя поменять на стары который можно открыть. Также перемотка видео... лучше сами посмотрите. стоп А ГДЕ КНОПКА РАСШИРИТЬ НА ВЕСЬ ЭКРАН?? Ну а так, не смотря на эти минусы я поставлю 4 звезды.
- (2023-08-26) the Denver channel Mawston (Mrs M): i gave this 4 star because it is good but the video player is mumbeld jumboed up the channel is in the middle, the save,clip,thanks.download and share is on the left. please fix this
- (2023-08-25) Stephen De Carlo (Fuzunga): Today I got hit with the dreaded update that smashes everything into a box next to the video player. Was relieved to find this plugin, but unfortunately it only changes the sidebar, channel pages, and the subscription feed. The homepage displays absolutely nothing and the actual video player is completely unchanged, with everything still squished into a box. I hope you can update it soon, and of course I will change my rating if it starts working.
- (2023-08-21) Nathan Welker: Absolutely necessary for browsing YouTube in 2023.
- (2023-08-17) Kiiro ki: Works good, but when I go to fullscreen and then disable it, the fullscreen button is cut or doesn't appear, same with the video bar. It is cut.
- (2023-08-15) OstepopSalat: old youtube useful
- (2023-08-12) Jorge: Really gives you that "nature is healing" feeling, even if it's all still burning down.
- (2023-08-11) User: good but the fade effect in the home page ruins it all. edit: finally the subscribe button is fixed edit 2: youtube messed it up again. when you click on a video. the profile picture changes into "null". and the word sometimes duplicates. and the dislikes disappear and the subscribe button disappears. note: this only happens for some users. this was caused by a stupid youtube update
- (2023-08-10) Big Mitch: Thanks works well
- (2023-08-09) Elyorbek Khudaybergenov: Please add on option to disable "People also watched" and "Channels new to you" and "For you" and "Previously watched" categories in the search.
- (2023-08-08) Tadeu Cunha Miranda: There´s been a problem bc now I can only see three videos per row in the homepage instead of five. I also would like to change the number of videos per row in the channels´ pages.
- (2023-08-08) Dzidzgkorn: Great extension overall but there are two bugs which really affect the experience. Channel layout has been messed up by new Youtube update. Also, sometimes the area where dislikes are located, is replaced with 3 dots (Transcript and Report Channel buttons), otherwise I have no issues.
- (2023-08-05) Chronics Krunker: Loved it as it brings back the classic look of youtube that has the strongest emotional impact on me, mostly. Problem is the youtube layout is from like 2016. I can understand not being able to bring back the 2000s youtube layout but I don't think it's impossible to do the 2012 one
- (2023-07-23) bobhdan fejtek: Its nosstalgia. in this verzion im first on youtube.,. tahnk for this.
- (2023-07-19) fsbik dfaga: Incrível, sem palavras
- (2023-07-18) Dirtu: This is perfect I can feel like in 2014 when youtube content was for fun not for money
- (2023-07-06) Barbara Bochenek: In Any browser (except for opera, same like the others but upload button is broken.) the icons are broken, hope you fix it some day.
- (2023-07-05) TheOutThereChannel: No option to always play songs or videos from the start in a playlist.. so if its music video it plays always plays where you skipped or left off. also dont see a option to rid the playlist pop up if no activity mouse move if playing a music play list.