# Better YouTube

> Hide YouTube Shorts across the site.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/better\_youtube](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better_youtube)

## Overview

- **ID:** `better_youtube`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** goosewin
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 92
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-11
- **First published:** 2026-01-27
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better_youtube/)

## Description

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 <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/577585700e711c66b2f847e9c2ba66f07706960fe129e88008d23cb2a93a014c/http%3A//youtube.com" rel="nofollow">youtube.com</a> and storage only.
Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.

Open source: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/40a9919d97bda2a9a6b5bab3aea5c0281120bb399930a72d36b65f2439ba4741/https%3A//github.com/goosewin/better-youtube" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/goosewin/better-youtube</a>

## Rankings

- #12,052 — Overall
- #182 — beta
- #220 — topic

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `https://www.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better_youtube)