Turn Off the Lights

Name: Turn Off the Lights
Rating: 4.594939723173091 (33595 reviews)
Author: https://www.turnoffthelights.com/

The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the videos as if you were in the cinema. Works for YouTube™ and beyond.

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Turn Off the Lights is a popular and trusted browser extension designed to transform your online video experience into a cinematic event. By dimming everything except your video, it helps you focus on the content without distractions. Compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and more, it offers features like Auto HD, Picture-in-Picture mode, customizable dark layers, eye protection modes, and various video player enhancements. The extension supports multiple languages, customizable shortcut keys, and integrates smoothly with popular ad blockers. Whether you're a video lover, dark mode enthusiast, or concerned about eye strain, Turn Off the Lights provides a versatile, easy-to-use tool that guarantees enhanced viewing comfort and atmosphere.

Extension Video Productivity Accessibility Entertainment Utilities

By:

https://www.turnoffthelights.com/

Users:

1,000,000

Rating:

4.59

(33,595) 2 ratings

Version:

4.5.8 Last updated: 2025-06-10

Creation date:

2020-06-04

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus
tabs
storage
webNavigation
scripting

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size:

8.46MB

Email:

su*****@stefanvd.net

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

19 hours ago

Ranking

# 200 ▲ 14

Other rankings

#346 in Accessibility ▼ 3

#10 in Darken your browser

#11 in Favorites of 2024

#81 in enjoy keyword 12 ▼ 2

#82 in light keyword 15 ▲ 12

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Other platforms

Turn Off the Lights for Firefox (v4.5.8)

45,375 4.57

(687)

Turn Off the Lights (v4.5.8)

503,832 3.90

(126)

User reviews

Turn Off the Lights is praised for effectively dimming screens to reduce distractions and ease eye strain. It offers customizable automatic activation and additional features like volume control and screenshot capture. However, users report occasional bugs requiring refreshes, interference with website UI elements like captions and search bars, and compatibility issues causing over-dimming. Some experience conflicts with other extensions and browser crashes. Despite these issues, many users find it invaluable, especially for controlling video quality to save data and enhancing video watching comfort.

Pros

Provides effective screen dimming to reduce distractions during video playback.
Supports automatic activation on video play and allows customization per website.
Helps protect eyes with its dark mode features, enhancing viewing comfort.
Offers additional useful functionalities such as volume adjustment and screenshot capturing.
Saves data by controlling automatic video quality on various streaming sites.

Cons

Sometimes causes functionality issues requiring browser reloads to fix.
Occasionally interferes with website elements like search bars and video captions.
Compatibility problems noted with certain browsers or devices, leading to full window dimming.
Conflicts with other extensions forcing users to disable ones they want.
Reports of the extension freezing or crashing browsers on certain occasions.

Recent reviews

It needs an update something has been bugging it, its been having so much issue that I had to always close the browser and reload the page to have this extension working again...

Va*****, 2025-05-29

great extension without video distraction.

Jo*****, 2025-05-19

It's a great extension, I love dark modes and it makes it more enjoyable to watch videos without the distraction of the text. I've been using it for years, and now it also has several functionalities such as being able to make it activate automatically when you press play, select websites where it works automatically, or specific sites where it doesn't activate automatically. It's very good, congratulations to the developers!

Le*****, 2025-05-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Turn Off the Lights requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Turn Off the Lights has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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