Better Subscriptions for YouTube™

Better Subscriptions for YouTube™

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

What is Better Subscriptions for YouTube™?
Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension designed to enhance the user experience on YouTube. It provides functionality like hiding videos marked as WATCHED on Subscriptions Feed, YT Home and Channel Videos page, hiding premieres until they are available to watch, collapsing sections for easy navigation, and a settings page for configurable options. Customize YouTube to fit your lifestyle and never lose track of new content from your subscriptions.
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By: OsaSoft
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.81 (85)
Version: 0.19.1 (Last updated: 2023-10-04)
Creation date: 2020-03-31
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 118.78K
URLs: Website
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Better Subscriptions for Youtube™
Better Subscriptions for Youtube™ (v0.19.0)
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Summary

This plugin adds a toggle to the YouTube Subscription Feed that allows users to toggle whether or not they want watched videos to show up in the feed. The aim of this is to make navigating the subscription feed much easier and intuitive.

Current features:

  • Hide videos that are marked as WATCHED on Subscriptions Feed, YT Home and Channel Videos page
  • Mark videos as WATCHED to hide them from feed
  • Mark all as WATCHED
  • Hide videos in subscription feed automatically, once you start watching them
  • Hide Premieres until they are available to watch
  • Hide Shorts automatically
  • Hide empty sections (Today, Yesterday, Last Week, etc)
  • Collapse sections to navigate to older videos more easily
  • Show videos that have been hidden
  • When hidden videos are shown, unmark videos as WATCHED to show them in feed again
  • Settings page with configurable options
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User reviews
User reviews summary
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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Helps manage subscription page by marking watched videos
  • Quick response from developer to fix issues
  • Useful for keeping a clean subscription box
  • Adds a 'hide watched video' button
  • Works on channel and homepage pages
Cons
  • Becomes broken after YouTube updates
  • Does not work for all YouTube pages and features
  • Some users have experienced issues with hiding watched videos
  • Limited functionality for certain types of YouTube videos (e.g. shorts)
Most mentioned
  • Broken after YouTube update
  • Quick response from developer to fix issues
  • Useful for managing watched videos on subscription page
  • Limited functionality for certain types of YouTube videos
  • Works on channel and homepage pages
Recent reviews
Does not hide already seen videos.
by Krzysztof O. Krzysztof O., 2020-10-14

I saw the fix is already on its way. Awesome :) Thank you!
by Anita Fellner Anita Fellner, 2020-03-31

Very good!
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Safety
Risk impact

Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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