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.
Stats
By: OsaSoft
Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.81 (84)
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
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Pros
  • Helps manage subscription box
  • Quick response to issues
  • Useful features such as hiding watched videos
Cons
  • Broken functionality after YouTube updates
  • Does not work for some users
  • Confusing interface
Most mentioned
  • Broken functionality after YouTube updates
  • Quick response to issues
  • Useful features such as hiding watched videos
Recent reviews
Suddenly videos are not being hidden after I watched them I guess Youtube broke something again so I have to wait for the developer of this app to fix it worked great until today
by Tom Bowman Tom Bowman, 2023-11-14

Awesome developer, couldn't use YT without this.
by Juanjo Rodriguez Juanjo Rodriguez, 2023-08-31

I cant imagine Youtube without this extension !!! Always fast patch !
by Axelot Axelot, 2023-08-31
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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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