YouTube™ Refined

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

What is YouTube™ Refined?

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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By: Marc Guiselin

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Users: 982 ▼ -4

Rating: 4.41 (157)

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

Creation date: 2020-01-25

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 295.94K

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

URLs: Privacy policy

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# 29714 ▼ 194

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⚠️NOTICE: This extension is not under active development. Many features work partially or not at all. Use at your own risk.

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

Now open source! Check out the source code and contribute here: https://github.com/MarcGuiselin/youtube-refined

Youtube Refined is an extension for anyone that improves YouTube in a variety of ways for those who wish to be more productive and waste a bit less time on Youtube. Click on the little icon in the top-right hand corner of chrome to access Youtube Refined's many different settings.

Youtube refined is constantly updated and improved by me with input from all of you wonderful people! Reach me anytime at my email [email protected] or post a question/suggestion here on the Chrome Web Store.

Features: • Easily completely block/unblock channels on YouTube • Blur thumbnails from obnoxious channels • See various stats about how long and who you watch • Block ads on YouTube

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Ad blocker works well
Wide range of options for YouTube
Helps improve focus and productivity

Cons

Some features may not work properly
Error message when blocking all ads
Sunset setting makes text unreadable

Most mentioned

Ad blocker
Good range of options
Abandonment of the extension

Recent reviews

Great add on

Clark Anderson, 2020-08-09

i would like to see a new feature that would keep the player in its original format

Andrew Kerns, 2020-06-30

i love this Add on, i would like to see 2 new features in the future update, 1. Turn on "Add To Playlist" on every video 2. Change Player Size Option Permanently.

Clark Anderson, 2020-08-19

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Safety

Risk impact

YouTube™ Refined is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install YouTube™ Refined if you trust the publisher.