Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)
'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube
539 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Elle Victore, 4 months agoIf you're looking for an alternative to YouTube High Definition add-on this is the one.
With a lot of features that you didn't know you needed this is one of the best things out here, making YouTube actually a lot better than its current state.
This powerful add-on allows you to:
• Set a fixed resolution for video playing so you don't have to change it every time.
• Always display subtitles when available.
• Add a loop button so you don't have to right-click to get the menu for loop. Loop can be active for ever.
• Change the video player size and features.
• Apply a visual theme for YouTube background, auto-expand descriptions, hide ads and much more!
Not working on mobile view? Toggle Firefox desktop mode and you'll be ready to go.
This is a must have! - Rated 5 out of 5by Masri, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by 2mustange, 4 months agoThis extension has nearly replaced "Enhancer for Youtube" for me. I like to play my videos at 2x speed for whenever i view a youtube video. A few things missing is that playback speed doesn't seem to be permanent on all embedded videos. 2nd is that this extension doesn't have the best playback controls. I would love added buttons to adjust the the speeds or set back to what i set for the extension default.
Developer response
posted 4 months agothanks! will search for a bug with embedded & speed up. (Consider joining us on Github)
https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/1586
do you mean each and every embedded video? (else please add example/s) - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16366541, 4 months agolooking to replace Enhancer for YouTube [for Cowardice in the Face of google]... but this extension refuses to export its own settings. asks for permission to access storage [granted] & then never proceeds to local FS folder choice & never exports. importing settings seems to work. wtf... excessively compartmented settings UI, requiring totuous traversal of modal sub-windows.
Developer response
posted 4 months agohey, how did you import when you couldn't export? Most people wont remember the order of 100 features in one list. However you arent bound to it as there is search. I'm sorry frustration isn't impossible and partly inevitable even for this product deserving 5 stars, until a few more of our 570 000 users help us. - Rated 5 out of 5by Osugoi, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by cydra, 4 months agoI like the the concept so I give this to support for future improvment
- Rated 5 out of 5by N4Sh, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by JC, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18258752, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18238416, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Telina, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by –Phase–, 4 months agoVery, very good replacement for Enhancer for Youtube. Has all the same features Enhancer did, and even some that it didn't. I will be using this until Enhancer comes back (if it ever does). Thanks a lot for providing this amazing extension!
Developer response
posted 4 months agohi! you could also always use both. This is growing since 2012 (just late on Firefox). looking forward to fast maintenance always through finally being visible /popular enough on github to attract some volunteers and want to register a non-profit. - Rated 5 out of 5by armadillo1899, 4 months agoSadly the subtitle customisation only works on desktop mode if you're on mobile. I hope it'll get fixed in the future.
Developer response
posted 4 months agohi! yet we run on www.youtube.com, so nothing runs on m.youtube.com, which sees ~17% as much traffic and i like it being less heavy of a page and wondered to suggest it to desktop users /with modification - "mobile youtube always" : https://github.com/code-charity/youtube/issues/1211 - Yet it also is a different website, thus the layout / UI work will oftne be like a new extension and both are subject to change /need maintenance. - Besides playback features like speed and volume and pip are a browser standard and might already work on many websites, if we let the extension run there (so we should first finish every idea about these, as they last may only cause 5 star reviews.) - Please post any requests and ideas in our github (~=todo-list) - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18247726, 4 months agoNot usable: impossible to add channels to blocklist.
Developer response
posted 4 months agohi, please rate us for all of our (100+) features. (Otherwise it is not fair, compared to all other extensions.)
Also: This is a "misplaced support requested": the button is on the channel pages (we can add it on channels too to be easy to find, but we already do 100s of things for free and it is impossible to do every possible thing users imagine). A volunteer recently even revised this whole feature though! AND the feature is displayed small & las,t because we might retire one day, since YouTube also offers such by now. - Rated 1 out of 5by ee, 4 months agoOffers good functionalities, but seems rarely able to enforce them. E.g. I almost always have to turn autoplay off and cancel up next videos manually. It's features are well thought out; it's just wildly inconsistent.
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what even was that drivel? how is this rating-manipulating heckling even allowed on AMO?Developer response
posted 4 months agoHi there, read again maybe? Whats not supposed to do here is misplacing support requests in reviews. Be assured an author's comment can be relevant more easily. You might not want to launch wrongful attacks here either like "wildly inconsistent".
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Hi there, several people confused the number of options and how specific they are: Autoplay means if a video is starting to play at page load without a click. Disabling "Up next Autoplay" is another features that you want to use separately (or both, your choice).
(Most of our users yet bring the interest/geek to watch up to 100 switches. )
Also please consider that no matter what we work for free since 11 years and 100s of times than most extensions with a single feature never requiring an update. So we deserve more than 5 stars. Our features are consistently developed and some might (or might not) temporarily have issues after YouTube changes. (Since YouTube doesn't announce these changes, it is the best we can possibly do. The only hope to manage this 24/7 service perfectly is many users and luckily we grow. Slowly tho. With every bad and inaccurate review it gets worst, my hope goes down. That's the purpose of review. You decide if you want such to be attempted any further or just not bother, or even vote it down to make it stop existing.) - Rated 5 out of 5by Aguilucho, 5 months agoMy playback is interrupted by short commercial videos at the beginning, middle and end.
What do I need to configure so that this does not happen?
I hope it turns out to go up to 5 stars.
Now, After developer response:
OK, sorry. The addon description says "Make YouTube tidy & powerful! YouTube Player Size Theme Quality Auto HD Colors Playback Speed Style ad block Playlist Channel H.264"
I read "ad block" and I understood like "ad block".
Sorry. Have you a nice day
Now, After developer second response:
Okay. I didn't know I was asking for something impossible by misunderstanding you with "ad block". I give you 5 starsDeveloper response
posted 4 months agoHi again! We serve 500000 users since 11 years with over 100 features and few of them have our ad-removing feature enabled only. It works well, in that it removed all banner ads on Youtube. Skipping Videos ads might not always work. YouTube tolerates it a few times and then ignores it. BTW Most users who want to remove ads might have ublock-origin primarily and they are happy if we can block even more.
As said you write the obvious about youtube ads here, as if it was our fault. It can misleading a quick reader to expect adware here. You might noticed, that youtube is locking out the blockers since october.) BTW i added the keyword to the list recently because extensions copying our adblocker-code got a million users. That was the other day, when all worked exceptionally still. (This is a Sisyphos task.)
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Hello there! this feels like a bad joke very much. Maybe you knew already that YouTube is commercial and want to search for an adblocker. I'm serving non-commercially since over 11 years. I am not an adblocker. I deserve 5 stars already (actually more) - Rated 5 out of 5by Clooney, 5 months agoVery damn useful! it expands the description zone and many more features! good extensioN!
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18242037, 5 months agoHas many good assets to youtube however my main problem seems to be the screenshot tab as any edit to the main youtube page takes a screenshot of whatever video I'm watching and I won't even realize until I have fifteen screenshots of the same image on my PC