Better Subscriptions for YouTube™

Name: Better Subscriptions for YouTube™
Rating: 3.857142857142857 (98 reviews)
Author: OsaSoft

Make navigating YouTube's subscription grid easier by hiding watched videos

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Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube subscription experience. It adds a toggle to hide videos you've already watched, making your subscription feed cleaner and easier to navigate. Users can automatically hide watched videos across the Subscription Feed, YouTube Home, and Channel Videos pages.

Key features include marking videos as watched to hide them, hiding premieres until they're available, automatically hiding Shorts, collapsing and hiding empty sections in the feed, and a settings page with customizable options. The extension also allows showing hidden videos and unmarking them as watched when desired. For contributions, bug reports, or feature requests, visit the project's GitHub or contact the developer on Twitter. A Firefox version is also available.

Extension Productivity Video Utilities

By:

OsaSoft

Users:

2,000

Rating:

3.86

(98)

Version:

0.19.2 Last updated: 2024-08-05

Creation date:

2020-03-31

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage

Size:

119.00KB

Email:

os*****@osasoft.cloud

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-08

Ranking

# 18,030 ▼ 35

Other rankings

#116 in Just for Fun ▲ 3 #2 in subscriptions keyword 19 ▲ 2 #9 in subscription keyword 34 ▲ 1 #153 in firefox keyword 27 ▼ 1 #225 in youtube keyword 77 ▼ 84

Other platforms

Better Subscriptions for Youtube™ (v0.19.2)

404 3.91

(46)

User reviews

Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ is widely praised for improving YouTube subscriptions by marking and hiding watched videos, making browsing cleaner and more efficient. Users appreciate its ease of use and consider it indispensable. However, the extension often breaks temporarily after YouTube updates, leading to problems like missing buttons, broken thumbnails, or videos not hiding properly. Despite these issues, the developer is noted for quick responses and prompt fixes, keeping the extension reliable over years. Some limitations remain in selectively hiding videos on certain pages, but overall it greatly enhances the YouTube experience.

Pros

Effectively marks videos as watched and hides them in the subscriptions overview, helping keep the subscription box clean and easier to navigate.
Highly user-friendly and considered by many as a must-have extension for improving YouTube navigation, especially for managing watched videos.
The developer is responsive and quick to issue fixes after YouTube updates that temporarily break the extension.
Enhances YouTube usability by removing clutter and allowing users to focus on new or unwatched content.
The extension has been reliable and appreciated by long-term users for several years.

Cons

Frequent breaks due to YouTube updates causing temporary loss of functionality, such as hiding watched videos and marking videos as watched.
Sometimes the UI elements like 'mark as watched' button or thumbnail displays become inconsistent or broken.
Does not hide watched videos effectively on all pages, such as the front page, suggestions, or channel pages, leading to inconsistent behavior.
Users have reported issues with thumbnails becoming tiny or captions cut off during broken phases.
In some cases, the extension only works partially (e.g., only on channel pages), making it less useful until fixed.

Recent reviews

Couldn't live without this one!

Zs*****, 2025-03-10

скрывает но не все, поэтому в топку как бесполезное

Ба*****, 2024-11-11

For me, this is the best free extension for marking videos as watched, and hiding them from my subscriptions-overview. Some days is marks 2 videos as watched, while I only click on one, but all in all it's the most user friendly one that I've tried...and I've tried a lot.

Ma*****, 2024-09-06

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

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Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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