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Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)

'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube

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Review by frikdt
by frikdt, 2 years ago
For an award-winning Firefox-supported extension I find documentation on the provided functionality sorely lacking. I installed this mainly for the blocking feature, hoping to replace the retarded native youtube algorithm. After a frustrating hour or two, unable to figure out how the blocklist is supposed to work, checking the extension documentation, their home (github) page, and even returning to this installation page, I'm giving up.

Developer response

posted 2 years ago
hi! :) yes! this has been an very special uphill race for 11.5 years - and no time to document enough (but you can can help us.) And blocklist appears in the lastest video review from a popular channel as stated in our wiki. You can enable it and then see a new block button on thumbnails and on channel pages. And more that you might suggest (maybe also a keyboard short cut to block the current channel?) - As a maintainer i care for unique features the most that). (aand luckily the blocklist feature got a whole overhaul / rewrite with these month and we can upload another update for it in a few days. (and you could help test that one already).
909 reviews
  • by Firefox user 16024671, 4 days ago
    Maybe I'm missing something, but we need a way to completely turn off Themes in the extension. What with Firefox themes, Youtube's light/dark modes, and the settings of the essential Dark Reader, none of the "Improve Youtube" themes and night mode combinations of settings I've tried (many) provides a comfortable, readable display of www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions or www.youtube.com/feed/channels in dark mode. Could be an alpha channel or blending mode mistake.
    Maybe the "just right" setting could be found by digging into the documentation, but I haven't found this yet, and anyway, an extension is not an application and every setting should be described right next to the corresponding control or in a hover/right-click popup bubble.
  • by Firefox user 20310082, 5 days ago
  • by Bearskij, 7 days ago
    I think I got stuck in some youtube experiment and the whole site have changed and this addon doesn't work with anything anymore. If anyone knows how to opt out of experiments...

    Developer response

    posted 6 days ago
    This doesn't sound like a 3 star review.
    You can try to use an incognito window (extension can be enabled there too) or logout, or use another browser (or another computer.)

    The topic of youtube experiments is pinned in our repo:
    https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/4143

    (you received an update from us days ago too, it should have improved a lot while avoiding any disadvantages, yet it could also be responsible for a specific features change that you noticed.)
    thanks
  • by CarterBlaise, 9 days ago
    Idfk
  • by Firefox user 18945998, 22 days ago
  • by Firefox user 20261329, 23 days ago
  • by NotJohnTitor, 23 days ago
    The site is unusable without this.
  • by 退出党团队远离中共邪教访问c88c.us, a month ago
  • by Firefox user 13423357, a month ago
  • by Kuddel, a month ago
  • by Firefox user 20209998, a month ago
    FINALLY I CAN TURN OFF YOUTUBE MIXES ON MUSIC VIDEOS!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! It is still there on the sidebar as an OPTION if I WANT TO WATCH IT, because these developers understand consent UNLIKE YOUTUBE. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
  • by Ottomic, 2 months ago
    The blocking feature, which is the reason I installed it, doesn't work. Youtube keeps recommending me channels that I've told it 500 times I don't want to see again. Also I keep getting shorts on channel pages, so that's another feature that just doesn't work.
  • by Firefox user 17449937, 2 months ago
  • by mantikorr22, 2 months ago
    Ability to loop YT videos with switched off screen on Android is unparalleled with this extension. Thank you
  • by sp1cyduck, 2 months ago
  • by eggwaffles, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 20152668, 2 months ago
    Thank you thank you :) I can finally get rid of all these stupid changes youtube is forcing down our throats
  • by AThKORU, 2 months ago
  • by epicgamer, 3 months ago
  • by SmokeySalmon, 3 months ago
  • by Axo, 3 months ago
    doesn't work on mobile .-.
  • by ismetsoner, 3 months ago
  • by Fen1ma, 4 months ago
  • by Rust, 4 months ago
  • by InspectorGameBoy, 4 months ago
    Changing settings are slow.