Better YouTube

Name: Better YouTube
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: goosewin

By: goosewin Add-on

Hide YouTube Shorts across the site.

Overview

Firefox Add-ons Store

Daily users

Data as of 2026-07-26

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

0.1.3

Last updated: 2026-02-11

Features & Capabilities

Better YouTube is a lightweight browser extension that declutters YouTube for long-form viewing.

Features: • Hide Shorts across the entire site (homepage, search results, subscriptions) • Hide unwanted sections: Explore, More from YouTube, Breaking News, Playables, Movies, and Home topic tabs • Extended playback speed controls (0.1x to 5x) with custom slider and buttons • All features toggleable from the popup menu • Settings sync across browser instances

Privacy: No analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Permissions limited to youtube.com and storage only. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Open source: https://github.com/goosewin/better-youtube

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

goosewin

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

0.1.3 Last updated: 2026-02-11

Version code:

6146990

Creation date:

2026-01-27

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

https://www.youtube.com/*

Content scripts matches:

www.youtube.com

Size:

23.94KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-26

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 14,646 ▲

Other rankings

#245 in beta keyword 34 ▲

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Developed by:

goosewin

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better_youtube/

Is Better YouTube Safe?

Risk impact

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Better YouTube requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Better YouTube is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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