'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos) Chrome Extension Analysis
Automation & Workflow EfficiencyChrome extension ID: bnomihfieiccainjcjblhegjgglakjdd
A powerful customization extension for YouTube that allows users to filter content, modify the video player's behavior, and overhaul the site's visual layout. It includes tools for ad-blocking, playback speed control, and specialized view modes like 'Zen mode'.
Overview
Installs
400K+
Rating
★ 4.5
7,135 reviews
Languages
57 locales
Includes Deutsch, English, English (United Kingdom), English (United States)...
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Automation & Workflow Efficiency
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Moderate review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a comprehensive 'supercharger' for YouTube with over 170 unique features. It emphasizes being an open-source, non-profit project that helps users tidy the interface and remove distractions to save time and clicks.
Inferred product pattern
Open-source platform modification tool that provides granular control over a third-party site's UI and functionality.
Review-backed pain points
Users report the extension occasionally making YouTube completely unusable, with videos failing to play or the browser hanging. Some users experience 'white boxes' when trying to access settings.
Observed feature gaps
Users have expressed a desire for a feature to filter subscription lists, specifically to hide past livestreams from the home page and subscription feed.
- YouTube power users
- Privacy-focused viewers
- Content curators
- Users sensitive to visual clutter
- Blocking YouTube Shorts and AI-generated content
- Customizing video quality and playback speed defaults
- Removing distracting UI elements like the header or comments
- Applying custom dark themes and blue-light filters
- Effective interface decluttering
- Ability to disable unwanted native YouTube features
- High degree of customization flexibility
- Severe stability issues causing page load failures
- Broken settings menus appearing as white boxes
- Conflicts with YouTube's native subtitle and dubbing settings
- Detection by YouTube as an ad-blocker
- Performance complaints detected
- No pricing friction observed; the extension is claimed to be open-source and non-profit.
Support
Users are directed to GitHub for bug reports, though some reviewers feel that recent critical bugs are not being addressed quickly enough.
Reliability
Significant reliability issues reported, including page crashes, playback freezing, and specific feature breakages (e.g., time format and mini-player icons).
Privacy
No privacy complaints observed in the provided review samples.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 3
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 57
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Support link
- Version: 4.2030
- Size: 1.06MiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: improvedtube.com
Privacy policy: http://improvedtube.com/privacy
Support links: http://www.improvedtube.com/contact
