Custom Progress Bar for YouTube™ Chrome Extension Analysis
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming HacksChrome extension ID: nbkomboflhdlliegkaiepilnfmophgfg
This Chrome extension allows users to replace the standard YouTube video progress bar with custom animations and graphics. Users can select from a library of themed designs—ranging from gaming characters to memes—to customize the visual aesthetics of the YouTube player.
Overview
Installs
200K+
Rating
★ 4.6
3,421 reviews
Languages
54 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
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming Hacks
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The store listing positions this product as a fun, creative tool to personalize the YouTube viewing experience with animated and themed progress bars. It highlights a library of hundreds of designs and emphasizes a user-friendly, seamless integration for browser users.
Inferred product pattern
A personalization utility that shifts to an aggressive ad-supported or potentially malicious revenue model via third-party redirects and software bundling.
Review-backed pain points
Users report extreme frustration with constant pop-ups soliciting reviews, forced redirects to third-party sites, and the suspicious bundling of external software identified by users as potential malware.
Observed feature gaps
The core functionality is frequently blocked by persistent pop-ups and redirection issues on the developer's website, preventing users from accessing the progress bar library.
- YouTube power users
- Browser customization enthusiasts
- Casual viewers seeking aesthetic changes
- Customizing YouTube player UI
- Applying animated progress bar themes
- Effective at visual customization
- Fun and entertaining aesthetic designs
- Aggressive and repetitive review solicitation
- Malware/PUP concerns (addonup bundling)
- Obtrusive redirects and unwanted browser behavior
- Technical failure to recognize installed extension
- NSFW advertising on the external website
- Performance complaints detected
- Privacy complaints detected
- No direct pricing friction reported; however, excessive aggressive promotion and external site behavior create high friction.
Support
Numerous complaints regarding non-responsive/annoying review nagging and lack of reliability in the installation process.
Reliability
High incidence of reports stating the extension fails to detect itself, triggers unwanted browser behavior, and directs users to unsafe content.
Privacy
Reports of bundling suspicious third-party software (addonup) and exposure to inappropriate ads/redirects on the developer's portal.
- Ad-supported model observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 10
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 54
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Support link
- Version: 3.8.16
- Size: 419KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: custom-progressbar.com
Privacy policy: https://custom-progressbar.com/privacy
Support links: https://custom-progressbar.com/support