YouTube Live Chat Enhancement

YouTube Live Chat Enhancement

Makes chat easier to read for streamers and moderators by filtering and highlighting chat messages.

What is YouTube Live Chat Enhancement?
The 'YouTube Live Chat Enhancement' is a Chrome extension specifically designed to augment the chat experience on live streams on YouTube. It offers a range of functionalities that simplify chat moderation and increase readability. These include features for filtering out specific users or commands, deleting or retracting messages, and highlighting specific users or specific words. It also has a unique feature to auto-reveal deleted messages to ensure proper moderation. These functionalities can be easily accessed with the help of two buttons added to the top of the chat section in the live stream interface.
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By: sirvival
Users: 2,000+
Rating: 3.93 (15)
Version: 1.43 (Last updated: 2019-07-06)
Creation date: 2019-07-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 99.69K
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Summary

YouTube Live Chat Enhancement

Allows for the option to: Filtering out chat from specific users (ie: Nightbot) or !commands. Completely remove deleted/retracted chat messages. Use a hotkey to highlight the most recent chat message so you will know where to you left off. Highlight special users who you don't want to miss

For mods out there is an option to: Auto reveal deleted chat messages so it's easier to make sure the right things are being deleted. Highlight certain words to bring attention to things that might need to be moderated.

To use this extension simply open up a gaming.youtube.com stream and you will notice two new buttons at the top of the chat allowing you to enable "Filtering" and "Moderation" options.

User reviews
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Pros
  • Helpful for moderating chat
  • Convenient tool
  • Works great
Cons
  • Crashes browser
  • Causes lag
  • Freezes tab when using Mod chat function
Most mentioned
  • Helpful for moderating chat
  • Freezes tab when using Mod chat function
Recent reviews
Great in theory, set up is simple and easy—but it immediately crashes my page after highlights load in.
by Azure Azure, 2022-12-01

Its a Good tool but its makes my browser lag badly
by Merlin Wolf Merlin Wolf, 2022-07-31

Nice concept but currently not effective. The setting to make sure "live chat" is the default when loading a stream does not work. In addition to that, the setting for mod chat that will keep deleted message available makes the tab freeze/hang and renders it useless.
by John Lovitz John Lovitz, 2022-07-16
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Safety
Risk impact

YouTube Live Chat Enhancement is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

YouTube Live Chat Enhancement has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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