YouTube™ Refined

Refine your Youtube experience! Block ads, fix clickbaity video titles, show accurate video views, and more with Youtube™ Refined!

YouTube Refined - Enhance your YouTube viewing experience

YouTube Refined is a feature-rich Chrome extension desiring to enhance the YouTube user's experience. It allows users to perform tasks such as blocking unwanted ads, controlling visibility of specific channels, fixing click-baity video titles, and accurately displaying video views. Apart from these, it also offers a variety of themes for visual customization. This open-source extension is continuously updated for improvement with direct input from its users.

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Extension stats

By: Marc Guiselin

Users: 828

-9

Rating: 4.41

(157)

Version: 2.5 Final release (Last updated: 2021-09-30)

Version code: 0.2.5

Creation date: 2020-01-25

Permissions:

*://www.youtube.com/*
unlimitedStorage
storage
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
identity
identity.email

Size: 295.94K

Email: su*****@guiselin.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 32,142 ▼ 64

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Effective ad blocking
Wide range of options and features
Enhances YouTube experience
User-focused features (e.g., thumbnail blurring, video title editor)
Works seamlessly without issues

Cons

Ad blocker may not work for all content
Some users feel the extension has been abandoned
Sunset setting makes text hard to read

Most mentioned

You should get a Nobel Prize!
Good extension for a wide range of options in YouTube
Seems like this extension has been abandoned
Very good extension
Honestly, this is great. To get free donation features...

User reviews

I don't believe the adblocker works and I think the sunset setting makes the text unreadable.

Nobody, 2024-01-22

Good EXtension for a wide range of options in youtube.

Adil Ehsan, 2023-08-20

You should get a Nobel Prize!

Siti Nurhaliza, 2022-01-06

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Extension safety

Risk impact

YouTube™ Refined requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

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Risk likelihood analysis details

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