Ambient light for YouTube™

Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!
What is Ambient light for YouTube™?
Ambient light for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension that surrounds YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. It offers features such as ambient light, removing black bars, adjusting filters, video customization, settings management, and privacy & security. It also includes advanced features and settings for the best experience.

Extension stats

Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.82 (128)
Version: 2.38.10 (Last updated: 2024-08-02)
Creation date: 2020-02-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 969.73K

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Ambient light for YouTube™ (v2.38.10)
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Extension summary

This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!

Tip:

Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.

Features:

  1. Ambient light
  • Blur
  • Spread
  • Fade in duration
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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Works well for ultrawide and widescreen content
  • Enhances viewing experience with ambient lighting
  • Highly recommended for OLED monitors
  • Allows for detailed settings customization
Cons
  • Prevents HDR content from displaying vibrantly
  • Not fully functional during fullscreen mode
  • Lags video playback for some users
Most mentioned
  • Great for ultrawide screens
  • Improves cinematic experience
  • Desire for compatibility with other video platforms
Recent reviews
by arda2216, 2024-10-21

Works perfect for ultrawide screens and widescreen content!
by Nico, 2024-10-13

Works really well but prevents HDR content being displayed in HDR? Disabling the extension gives the video much more vibrant colours. Hope you can figure it out! Thanks.
by Louis Holdsworth, 2024-10-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Ambient light for YouTube™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Ambient light for YouTube™ has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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