Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)
'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube
Review by Klaas de Eindbaas
Rated 5 out of 5
by Klaas de Eindbaas, 2 years agoExcelent Add-On. Works like a charm. Feature requests:
1. Option to default disable auto-dubbing aka always choose different dub than English if available, which can't be set in YT's own settings :( I'd like to have auto translated subs, but n.e.v.e.r auto translated dubs. I rather understand nothing & be forced to learn than to be kept dumb
2. Stop the audio-volume & image-quality reset when switching to mini-player. When one searches while playing a playlist the playback switches to mini-player mode (so the playback doesn't break while getting some results). However, if you changed the volume from the set default volume level (bc some creators speak louder while others speak quiter), the volume and video quality (in case that was what you changed) levels are reset to the default level. Please fix that.
3. A search field above the playlists add-to popup. I've watched youtube since day 1 back in 2005 and I've build up quite a library of playlists over the years to organise the vids I like/-d or find/found interesting and wanna save. So much so, that I now sometimes unknowingly end up remaking playlist (names) or alternate version bc I didn't know I already had a matching list to save to. Plus, when I do remember (99.9%), I sometimes need to scroll through all the lists to find the matching list to save to, which can be troublesome bc when scrolling on normal speed, the matching list can easily be overlooked by accident, leading to rescrolling and rescrolling and rescrolling till I finally find the list
1. Option to default disable auto-dubbing aka always choose different dub than English if available, which can't be set in YT's own settings :( I'd like to have auto translated subs, but n.e.v.e.r auto translated dubs. I rather understand nothing & be forced to learn than to be kept dumb
2. Stop the audio-volume & image-quality reset when switching to mini-player. When one searches while playing a playlist the playback switches to mini-player mode (so the playback doesn't break while getting some results). However, if you changed the volume from the set default volume level (bc some creators speak louder while others speak quiter), the volume and video quality (in case that was what you changed) levels are reset to the default level. Please fix that.
3. A search field above the playlists add-to popup. I've watched youtube since day 1 back in 2005 and I've build up quite a library of playlists over the years to organise the vids I like/-d or find/found interesting and wanna save. So much so, that I now sometimes unknowingly end up remaking playlist (names) or alternate version bc I didn't know I already had a matching list to save to. Plus, when I do remember (99.9%), I sometimes need to scroll through all the lists to find the matching list to save to, which can be troublesome bc when scrolling on normal speed, the matching list can easily be overlooked by accident, leading to rescrolling and rescrolling and rescrolling till I finally find the list
909 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16024671, 4 days agoMaybe 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20310082, 5 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Bearskij, 7 days agoI 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 agoThis 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18945998, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20261329, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共邪教访问c88c.us, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13423357, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kuddel, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20209998, a month agoFINALLY 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!!!
- Rated 1 out of 5by Ottomic, 2 months agoThe 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.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17449937, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mantikorr22, 2 months agoAbility to loop YT videos with switched off screen on Android is unparalleled with this extension. Thank you
- Rated 5 out of 5by sp1cyduck, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by eggwaffles, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20152668, 2 months agoThank you thank you :) I can finally get rid of all these stupid changes youtube is forcing down our throats
- Rated 5 out of 5by AThKORU, 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by epicgamer, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SmokeySalmon, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ismetsoner, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Fen1ma, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rust, 4 months ago