Control Panel for YouTube

Name: Control Panel for YouTube
Rating: 4.807 (57 reviews)
Author: Jonny Buchanan

Gives you more control over YouTube by adding missing options and UI improvements

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Control Panel for YouTube is a powerful Chrome extension designed to give users enhanced control over their YouTube experience. It offers a comprehensive set of features to customize the video player, video lists, Shorts, embedded videos, and the overall user interface, allowing you to hide ads, skip trailers, remove distracting UI elements, and tailor content visibility.

Key features include hiding AI summaries, sponsored videos, live and upcoming videos, disabling autoplay, hiding comments, and enabling theater mode by default. The extension also allows better control over Shorts, such as hiding or redirecting them. UI tweaks improve navigation by hiding banners, categories, and unnecessary buttons across both desktop and mobile versions. Additional options include making video transcripts downloadable and taking snapshots directly from videos. This extension is ideal for users seeking a cleaner, less distracting, and more personalized YouTube browsing experience.

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Daily users:

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Version:

1.11.2 Last updated: 2025-06-03

Version code:

5957058

Creation date:

2024-02-25

Risk:

Permissions:

storage

Size:

74.00K

Email:

ex*****@soitis.dev

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Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

13 hours ago

Ranking

# 672 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#94 in Photos, Music & Videos ▲ 1

#2 in panel keyword 30

#6 in control keyword 36

#6 in self control keyword 31

#6 in voice control keyword 34

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Control Panel for YouTube (v1.11.3)

30,000 4.70

(70)

Control Panel for YouTube (v1.11.2)

1,282 5.00

(2)

Publisher Change History

2025-03-12: Email was changed from jo*****@gmail.com to ex*****@soitis.dev

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User reviews

This Firefox add-on is praised for significantly improving YouTube's interface by restoring usability and offering customization options like thumbnail resizing. Users appreciate the control it provides in light of recent problematic YouTube UI changes. However, users report issues with YouTube detecting it as an ad blocker, accidental clicks on the snapshot button due to lack of toggling options, and compatibility problems with other extensions. Some requested features remain unaddressed, including better control over autoplay and video blocking options. Overall, it is highly recommended despite these limitations.

Pros

Effectively restores usability and sanity to YouTube's interface, fixing problematic UI changes.
Allows customization such as resizing video thumbnails and adjusting the number of videos displayed wide on the homepage.
Lightweight, easy to use, and works as described, providing much-needed control back to users.
Helps avoid annoying design choices and makes YouTube bearable, especially on Firefox browsers.
Receives positive user appreciation and strong recommendations for addressing YouTube's recent design issues.

Cons

Sometimes detected by YouTube as an ad blocker which can stop videos and cause warnings on accounts.
Lack of options to toggle certain features like the "take snapshot" button in the context menu leads to accidental clicks and annoyance.
Compatibility issues with other add-ons like Blocktube, affecting commenting and interacting on videos.
Some features like autoplay off don't work reliably in certain contexts (e.g., Firefox private tabs on Android).
Users request additional features such as blocking channels/videos and resizing Shorts thumbnails, suggesting current feature set could expand.

Recent reviews

by tg*****, 2025-06-12

I had the "Skip ads" setting turned off since I use uBlock Origin to block ads, but this extension was still triggering the warning about adblockers. Turns out it was the "Skip sponsored videos and promos" setting that was causing it. Just wanted to put this here for anyone else having this issue.

by –P*****, 2025-06-12

Great extension however due to its adblock function it trigger's youtube's adblock-detector and makes it so you can't watch videos. If an alternate version of this exisited without the built in adblocker (since I use a dedicated adblocker) then that'd be perfect. Good extension over all though!

by Ar*****, 2025-06-11

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Control Panel for YouTube requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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

Risk likelihood analysis details

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