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, a year 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 a year 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.
873 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by MixuQ, 13 days agoAfter the last video I added the queue always play automatically +1 video random.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Machy7, 18 days agoI only use this addon for setting the quality of videos to 1080p, and it does that, so its cool.
- Rated 5 out of 5by THX1138, 18 days agoLeider bremst diese Erweiterung das laden der Youtube Videos aus. Zur Zeit gibt es Probleme mit der Anzeige der Theme-Farben. Trotzdem vielen Dank!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18811424, 19 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by LK, 23 days agoSo, I installed this for the sole purpose of having Youtube playlists in reverse order but this is not working
There are quite a few features that are interesting but this extension causes some bugs as well. All videos start and then go back to the beginning after one second or so
The tweaks that work are great but if the page load is heavy and the features I'm most interested in don't work I cannot justify using this extension - Rated 4 out of 5by peepeeman, a month agoAMAZING I have only a couple problems that occurred for me (please read)
so when hiding the home feed/page, the issue is the buttons at the top don't go away
there needs to be a way to go to the last (or latest video) I watched in a playlist without removing videos
there needs to be a way to get the old look of youtube back such as the old player, thumbnails, square icons, etc.,
the button to delete videos from playlists does work, the problem is the context menu shows up (it clicks both the delete videos button and the 3 dots)
the remove videos slider doesn't show up in playlists other than my watch later
IF these issues are resolved I will change my rating to 5 star thx - Rated 5 out of 5by zeizey, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Foorty, a month agoUsed to be good in the past. Now not so much. While there are a lot of great options i consider a must have, sadly it makes youtube tabs extremely heavy and also near unusable. The YT interface becomes laggy and tabs freeze constantly.
Worse is that it happens on both Chrome and Firefox on two different PC's. (even worse is that performance issues have been present for a long time now, they just got worse and worse over time with each update)
Since the last update, i can't even open the settings anymore, it just says "asking your browser what settings you made here before" (on the FF PC) so i can't even export my settings (or more importantly, the watched list) anymore.
Sadly all of that means that the addon is unusable and simply does not work as intended anymore.
I hope it will improve at some point, but for now i can do nothing but to remove the addon for good, from all my devices.Developer response
posted a month agoIt is working well and we are catching up with Youtube changes often.
Please make a bug report, including any errors you might see with F12.
Please avoid wrong reviews.
Please be precise - possibly it is slow with one specific option enabled? (1 in 300)
thank you - Rated 5 out of 5by Mirka, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Zenfone 5, a month agoI added that extension, set some basic functions in first category and YT page couldn't load with Firefox popup that extension slowing down browser.. uninstalled.
Developer response
posted a month agoIt is working well and we are catching up with Youtube changes often.
Please make a bug report, including any errors you might see with F12.
Please avoid wrong reviews.
Please be precise - possibly it is slow with one specific option enabled? (1 in 300)
thank you - Rated 1 out of 5by AB, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by D_S, 2 months agoThe settings will not be retained. Every new page load is unchanged even though the settings are listed as active.
Developer response
posted 2 months agounlikely unless your storage device is locked or broken! please double check what you are doing (m.youtube.com support is limited) and make a bug report if still necessary. https://github.com/code-charity/youtube
thanks - Rated 1 out of 5by William, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18603228, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mars, 2 months agoWhile the features this addon provides are great, I am unable to use any of them because every time I attempt to install this extension, my computer becomes unusably laggy regardless of whether youtube is active or not. My computer gets so laggy that youtube videos are no longer able to play. Am not sure if this is an issue on my end or on the developer's end but this extension is completely unusable for me.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoPlease check the browser console F12 and make a bug report https://github.com/code-charity/youtube Please disable your features one by one to find the breaking one. If real, of course this is important and urgent (yet also unlikely even two reviews in a row saying "my computer is slow" mean nothing real, since the thought is contagious.) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13507781, 2 months agoFor the past few days, some YouTube pages in Firefox have been experiencing terrible page freezes. The built-in manager shows a load of 100% or even 200+%. When the add-on is disabled and the page is reopened, everything returns to normal.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoPlease check the browser console F12 and make a bug report https://github.com/code-charity/youtube . Please disable your features one by one to find the breaking one. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alexander Falkor, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nightmareci, 2 months agoThe fit-to-window feature is mostly what I wanted, and it works properly. I wanted it to hide the recommendations column completely as I find those distracting, while having the video as large as possible without fullscreening the browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mk, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ajoiner85, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by dlh, 3 months agoWorked well until it started crashing both my Zen browser and my wife's Waterfox with memory exhaustion.
Developer response
posted 2 months agoPlease check the browser console F12 and make a bug report https://github.com/code-charity/youtube . Please disable your features one by one to find the breaking one.
Otherwise we have no choice but ignore this (often these reviews are spam)