Compare Chrome extensions: Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube vs Privacy Badger

Stats Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube Permanent Progress Bar for YouTube Privacy Badger Privacy Badger
User count 6,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 4.25 4.42
Rating count 55 1,715
Last updated 2023-12-04 2024-02-06
Size 35.03K 1.90M
Version 0.2.9 2024.2.6
Short description
Always display a tiny progress bar with buffer loading on YouTube's player even in the fullscreen mode Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Full summary

This extension brings a small, persistent progress bar to the YouTube player, enhancing your viewing experience. You can customize the extension to adjust the bar's height and color on the options page.

The beauty of this feature lies in its adaptability ? it remains hidden until the default YouTube progress bar disappears, even in fullscreen mode!

The primary goal is to offer a constant visual cue of the player's progress status. If the bar appears too slim for your screen, head to the options page and tweak the height setting.

Exciting Features:

  1. Keep track of the loaded percentage (buffered video progress).
  2. Monitor the current position of the player.
  3. Enjoy timely updates of these percentages every 2 seconds.
  4. Almost all features are fully customizable through the options page.
  5. Compatible with the YouTube website and embedded YouTube players on any website.

Recent Changes: Version 0.2.0:

  1. The extension has been upgraded to manifest v3, ensuring improved functionality and performance.

Instead of keeping lists of what to block, Privacy Badger automatically discovers trackers based on their behavior. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal to tell companies not to track you. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger will learn to block them.

Besides automatic tracker blocking, Privacy Badger replaces potentially useful trackers (video players, comments widgets, etc.) with click-to-activate placeholders, and removes outgoing link click tracking on Facebook and Google, with more privacy protections on the way. To learn more, see our FAQ at https://privacybadger.org/#faq

To get help or to report bugs, please email [email protected]. If you have a GitHub account, you can use our GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/issues

*** Why does Privacy Badger need to read and change all my data on the websites I visit? ***

When you install Privacy Badger, your browser warns that Privacy Badger can “read and change all your data on the websites you visit”. You are right to be alarmed. You should only install extensions made by organizations you trust.

Privacy Badger requires these permissions to do its job of automatically detecting and blocking trackers on all websites you visit. We are not ironically (or unironically) spying on you. For more information, see our Privacy Badger extension permissions explainer: https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadger/blob/master/doc/permissions.md

Note that the extension permissions warnings only cover what the extension has access to, not what the extension actually does with what it has access to (such as whether the extension secretly uploads your browsing data to its servers). Privacy Badger will never share data about your browsing unless you choose to share it (by filing a broken site report). For more information, see EFF’s Privacy Policy for Software: https://www.eff.org/code/privacy/policy