Compare Chrome extensions: Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ vs Privacy Badger

Stats Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ Better Subscriptions for YouTube™ Privacy Badger Privacy Badger
User count 4,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 3.81 4.42
Rating count 84 1,711
Last updated 2023-10-04 2024-02-06
Size 118.78K 1.90M
Version 0.19.1 2024.2.6
Short description
Make navigating YouTube's subscription grid easier by hiding watched videos Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers.
Full 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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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 extension-devs@eff.org. 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