Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)
'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube
Review by Gemini62167
Rated 2 out of 5
by Gemini62167, 7 months agoA fairly decent extension for YT except that it is losing some of the most desirable functions for some reason. The skip ad feature doesn't work at all no matter what option you choose.
I wouldn't mind the ads so much and let many of them play except for the fact that most of them are so ridiculous, it's like a video example of the kind of ads you find in the National Enquirer. They're utterly unbelievable (or should be), but for whatever reason it appears the same kind of marketing and advertising laws and regulations just don't seem to apply on the internet. You can claim just about anything or misrepresent, twist and bend truth with fact to confuse people into believing things with abandon. Its the same kind of tactics the consrevativce media has been using increasingly since the 1980s. It's been going on for two generations now and trying to point this out, prove fallacy with fact is impossible. And for this, I don't think I nor anyone else should be required to watch this nonsense, I don't care if it's how these videos are monetized or not. Lying and manipulation for the sake of selling product is not an excusable reason. Sorry, I'm one of the few that still believes in ethics in this society. And really, as far as YT is concerned, it wouldn't exist at all if people didn't upload videos to begin with, so I'm not one to fall on my knees in tears over the plight of YT not making enough money to keep its investors happy. They could all go f**k themselves.
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As for the functions of this extension that seemed to have ceased to work, the mixer section does not register any open tabs and thus does not work. And, should you reload your page you will have to hit the extension pinned to your toolbar to get it to begin functioning at all with those options that still work. Sad really. Because for what it is supposed to do, it offers much in a very compact and easy to use design.
I wouldn't mind the ads so much and let many of them play except for the fact that most of them are so ridiculous, it's like a video example of the kind of ads you find in the National Enquirer. They're utterly unbelievable (or should be), but for whatever reason it appears the same kind of marketing and advertising laws and regulations just don't seem to apply on the internet. You can claim just about anything or misrepresent, twist and bend truth with fact to confuse people into believing things with abandon. Its the same kind of tactics the consrevativce media has been using increasingly since the 1980s. It's been going on for two generations now and trying to point this out, prove fallacy with fact is impossible. And for this, I don't think I nor anyone else should be required to watch this nonsense, I don't care if it's how these videos are monetized or not. Lying and manipulation for the sake of selling product is not an excusable reason. Sorry, I'm one of the few that still believes in ethics in this society. And really, as far as YT is concerned, it wouldn't exist at all if people didn't upload videos to begin with, so I'm not one to fall on my knees in tears over the plight of YT not making enough money to keep its investors happy. They could all go f**k themselves.
To continue...
As for the functions of this extension that seemed to have ceased to work, the mixer section does not register any open tabs and thus does not work. And, should you reload your page you will have to hit the extension pinned to your toolbar to get it to begin functioning at all with those options that still work. Sad really. Because for what it is supposed to do, it offers much in a very compact and easy to use design.
Developer response
posted 7 months agoHi! :)
> you will have to hit the extension pinned to your toolbar to get it to begin functioning
in the current firefox you have to first allow extensions to run always.
you don't sound like giving this free public service less than 5 stars (what makes one greedy or believing in negative-motivation?)
Ads: the features hides all banners and tries to skip different version of the skip button it is just one in 200 features, not relevant, not unique and we might stop or separate it for legal clarity https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/2751#issuecomment-2560581960 (read all by @improvedtube)
BTW currently a bug might disables a few more features unnecessarily and unfortunately firefox has not viewed the fix yet since December 29.
> you will have to hit the extension pinned to your toolbar to get it to begin functioning
in the current firefox you have to first allow extensions to run always.
you don't sound like giving this free public service less than 5 stars (what makes one greedy or believing in negative-motivation?)
Ads: the features hides all banners and tries to skip different version of the skip button it is just one in 200 features, not relevant, not unique and we might stop or separate it for legal clarity https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/2751#issuecomment-2560581960 (read all by @improvedtube)
BTW currently a bug might disables a few more features unnecessarily and unfortunately firefox has not viewed the fix yet since December 29.
753 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by allanimalz, a day ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abzyah, 2 days agoi think it's the best add-on for youtube for me (aside from ublock ofc). There is a LOT of options but i wish they were better categorized. It's a bit of a pain when you need to change one setting and you pretty much have to search manually through most of them (in other words category names are bad). Maybe add a search button or get list of changed options. And also then i used padding on progress bar hit it also pauses the video for me which it shouldn't.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Chantelle, 4 days agoEnjoyable lots of good options. I just wish I could boost the volume with the click of an onscreen button like in Enhancer. Unless I'm missing something. 😅 Getting stretched thumbnails now on Channel Homes and searches. Also wouldn't mind if the 3 videos per row was an option.
- Rated 5 out of 5by wrolghoul09, 5 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15021675, 12 days agoExtension works great but causes videos in playlist to become stretched and wide. Can't fix without disabling extension.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Hirnuva, 14 days agoWonderful addon. The dim could be adjustable, it's a bit too dark now. Also, I have the default speed set at 1.25x. If I slow down the video and the video goes to PiP mode the speed jumps back to 1.25x, so I need to keep it at normal speed.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ya inilah saya Bae, 15 days agoGreat addon, it helps me ❤. But the loop feature with numbers is still not implemented, if this feature exists I might give all my stars.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 19137270, 17 days agoI love this addon. I have just one problem: The options for hiding the live-chat dont really work.
'Collapsed' does the same as 'normal': When I open the stream the chat is there and I have to manually closed it via the X.
'Hide' removes the chat completely, but I dont want that.
When I have the live-stream open and go into the settings of the extension and change the live-chat setting to 'collapsed' it actually collapses the chat. But it doesnt do it automaticly, when I open a stream.
Hope I am not the only one with the issue and it can be fixed. Thanks for the great addon again. :) - Rated 5 out of 5by d7, 17 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14124929, 18 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by erik, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mehdi-13, 19 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Валерий, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by milbyte11, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Beeg, a month agocool addon but how do I block certain channel? I don't see any button to do that.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Ryan C, a month agoMostly great, but I just discovered that 'Disable Auto-Dubbing' is not working—at least not for me. That is by far the worst 'feature' YT has ever come up with, so I would greatly appreciate a fix!
- Rated 5 out of 5by directon, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kk, a month ago
Developer response
posted a month agono (how many milliseconds would it have to take for you to be able to notice? and why not document & measure it with F12)- Rated 5 out of 5by Luc, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dill kush, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19088519, a month agoExcellent addon, does almost everything it says it does except for one issue which has popped up in the last week
Recently it used to block youtube shorts in search results but after an update that feature has stopped working. Please consider looking into it in the future, other than that the extension is great.
Edit - Issue was fixed, thank you for the support - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16568355, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Nick, a month agoHad to disable it 5 minutes after installing because it ramped up CPU usage by 30%-40%. Why is this? I haven't even toggled anything ON yet.