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YouTube Redux

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta

Replicate old YouTube look and features within the modern layout!

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YouTube Redux
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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

Celeste
works perfectly :) hoping a fix to the videoplayer ui is released soon
Laz _
Really good, people who give less stars because they haven't added a fix to new stuff yet need to be patient. (Such as the new video ui & playlist ui thing). I would like it if they had a 2018 and 2020 layout, that would be nice.
Gary Ying
Doesn't save you from the fugly new UI "save to playlist"
Jay Cie (Bry)
This works very well ... and would be 5 stars, except for one thing very important to me. Simply turning on the extension, even if no selections are enabled, causes my YouTube notification bell to completely disappear. Turn the extension off and the bell reappears. That bell feature allows me to easily see any responses to comments I leave on videos, as well as new videos from the numerous channels to which I sub, as soon as the videos are posted, saving the trouble of having to hunt through screens or have YouTube notifications pop up on my Chromebook when I'm not on YouTube. I think I've tried every possible combination in this extension's settings trying to have the bell show, but am I missing something? If not, is there a way to enable the notification bell in a future update? Thank you.
Rackhead
The new UI is weird, I need a break.
HistoryBird
Please for the love of anything that has ruined YouTube, MAKE THE UPDATE FOR THE OLD UI ON VIDEOS! IT'S UGLY!
Austux •
it does work +- just needs video buttons to be changed (since so far all extensions seem to use whatever youtube currently has)
T Young
This does not work with the latest youtube change
Melissa Major
Love the extension! I've been using it for about a year+ and really enjoy its responsiveness, whenever YT decides to mess with the gui. Thanks guys! MelJ
Wolfcrafter_HD
Mix it with "Enhancer for YouTube" and you got a close to perfect YouTube Gui
is this the real life
This extension is really great, it's the best tool to make YouTube feel as good as it used to be. The only issue is that there is no way to open the customization page, like the settings for this specific extension, other than the first time you add it, and a bookmark or removing it and adding again... :( The issues with the player are caused by YouTube's updates, not the extension at fault; the buttons in the player simply don't scale with the extension, besides now looking uglier than before. The fix I found was to uncheck the option "Use small video player" and play them in large format, although it looks disgustingly large.
Kori Lash
Can you fix the -/+5/10 suddenly appearing when you fast forward or rewind 5 or 10 seconds
Deyana
tnx bro you removed the eyesore
Aleksey
Please add an option to restore the old player design.
Morgan друг
Im hoping for an update that changes the in-video icons back to the classic ones, or at LEAST the ones from a few days ago before the most recent ugly change. these new ones are just too big and fisher-price like.
Izzy
great however youtube keeps effing up their ui
mark wise
amazing extension! I would give 5 stars if it changed the icons for stuff like the bell and the icons in the video player.
Dejan Gammer (DejanGammer)
Love the app, yet i feel that it lacks the feature to disable shorts in the homepage. If it weren't for this lack of feature i would give 5 stars.
R.
No way to access settings from "beside the address bar" as the app claims. No way to access them except from the Thanks For Installing page. You have to save that page to bookmarks if you ever want to see it again. But I removed it anyway because it constantly froze Chrome (frozen tabs, can't open new window, etc), you have no control over the miniplayer when you're on the YouTube main page, and whatever's playing in the miniplayer goes back to the beginning (if it plays at all) every time you maximise the miniplayer (which you often have to do to get the video to play). After of 30 minutes fighting with YouTube and the play queue after installing this app, it is GONE. Bye bye, won't miss ya. There are more problems than I listed.
Ttzz T
Faster response than the new version
Lars Aaby
Looks very nice, but doesn't work for the new youtube player buttons that rolled out this summer or whatever, which sucks.
Bob Bob
Lovely! Could there be an option in the future to disable the 'Ask' AI button on videos too?
Tyler
When I removed the plugin, The profiles in comment sections are still small.
Dwayne Lawrence
Great extension. YouTube's homepage is way too big now.
Raven
it ACTUALLY works and doesnt bug out at all, and doesn't take long to fix problems when they do show up! love this extension, just one thing. it would be perfect if you could choose which old layout you can use, like other than the 2017 one, before or after that. other than that this is great.
Joe Swanson
Great! also can you make the line under the view counter longer like it used to be
Betsy Gilks
it's great but it needs to be able to interact with custommtube because they clash badly!
Argyll B
Thank you for sharing
insanity10k
Crazy how more people don't know about this. I love this extension! More people ought to use it! Thanks!
CIArat
works good and isnt broken! just needs an option to hide avatars/profile pictures on videos in the homepage
Grey Bear
Great But how do i get the old logo? and Im also shocked how good this is!
Роман Козлов
stopped working. shows modern youtube.
Nick gilbert
Very good
p3tr0ne 12
it seems like a really good UI change but youtube's latest (at the time of writing) UI update breaks this extension. I hope either youtube change's it back, YouTube Redux send an update, or a separate extension reverts it back and is compatible with Redux. (aka looks cool but youtube broke it)
Maxamillion saye
so first off i love this second for some reason it doesn't use the old red colors on certain things and it doesn't have the old logo. the rest though is like perfect. there is the matter of the skip ad button not being the old square one but i really don't care about that. thank you for this extension
John Johnson
the Ui looks just like the mid 2010s i love it due to nostalgia however its a little broken right now due to youtubes new ui update so please fix that
owen
Just what I was looking for, no youtube games, shorts, only videos.
Kris
Thank you for updating this awesome extension! ^_^
ballz
works great! very customizable
ekhros
Up-to-date extension, revitalizes your YouTube experience. Corporations really want us to feel depressed.
Toshihiko
When using the "Use small video player" option in Windows, the player size gets smaller each time you watch a video. This seems to be a bug. Because doing the same thing on a Chromebook doesn't cause the same problem.
deez
I like this extension i only used it cause red subscribe button but jus decided to go all in on the early 2000's YT vibe one problem by default the video player in very small by default and i had to fiddle around in the settings to not ruin my posture to watch youtube (fullscreen exists too ig) but that doesn't really matter the main problem i had with this was the new subscribe animation clashed with the rectangular sub button i dont mind the smoothness (if thats a word) id just like it if it were rectangular
wutgoddamit
This is a nice extension. but I have a problem. When I open up a Youtube short, the video scales to a regular video. I know it is one of the settings in this extension because when I turn it off I do not have this problem. I just do not know which one it is though.
BODY-LAB
This is a bug report regarding the "YouTube Redux" extension. When using the extension with the Vivaldi browser (Chromium-based), the popup UI appears extremely small, making it difficult or impossible to interact with the settings. Specifically, when clicking the extension icon, the popup window is rendered with very limited width and height, preventing proper scrolling or clicking. Behavior in other browsers has not been verified, but under Vivaldi, the UI size is clearly inadequate and interferes with usability. If possible, I would appreciate it if you could consider allowing the popup UI size to be adjustable, or providing an option to open the settings in a separate tab. Thank you for your attention.
Marek Povazan
Great extension, although, it doesn´t work well with new YouTube version. Controls are mostly hidden under the screen.
Tanner Rosser
Best youtube customizer EVER
Adam Vandros
After the new YouTube video UI update I started looking for a fix and found this. It doesn't fix the awful video UI layout but I love this extension. Please fix the video UI layout when possible - I hate what they did with theatre mode almost making it similar to full screen, I liked being able to see the video in a bigger picture than default but without it taking up entire screen. Either way I'll be donating soon because I love the extension.
Kristoff Seisler
It didnt change the ui it just made everything squishy and uncomfortable
Só um Cabeça de mato
Please let us change the new player, the new UI! It's horrible!!!
Misan
great extension but youtube shorts are appearing in my search again even though I have them to be hidden toggled, just that fix and it'll be back to being perfect again!