Iridium for YouTube

Iridium for YouTube

Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience with Iridium

What is Iridium for YouTube?
Iridium for YouTube is an extension packed with features that allows you to personalize your YouTube experience, control ads, automate tasks, enhance navigation, and more.
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Stats
By: Particle
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.04 (465)
Version: 2.1.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-15)
Creation date: 2019-01-05
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • *://www.youtube.com/*
Size: 1.18M
URLs: Website
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Iridium for YouTube
Iridium for YouTube (v2.1.0)
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Summary

Iridium is back with v2.0!

Enjoy a more personalized experience on YouTube with Iridium, an extension packed with multiple features that allows you to tailor the website look, feel, and behavior tuned to your taste, such as controlling nuisances by managing ads, blocking channels, and disabling shorts, automate tedious tasks by enforcing your preferred video quality and speed of choice, as well as disable autoplay, 60fps, and loudness normalization, enhance navigation by going to your subscriptions when clicking on the YouTube logo and automatically go to a default tab when clicking on a channel name, and so much more.

The extension also offers an option to show on Youtube pages an Iridium button that opens the extension settings as a convenience so you don't have another extension button on your browser toolbar all the time.

With Iridium you have access to a vast number of features, all of which are listed below.

Features:

  • Show extension button on Youtube pages
  • Sync the extension settings
  • Export, import, and reset extension settings
  • Manage how you want your ads to be displayed on the home page, video page, and search page
  • Manage video ads, and whether or not to show for subscribed channels
  • Show full titles in video thumbnails
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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Disables autoplay correctly
  • Active developer support on Github
Cons
  • Causes video buffering
  • No longer supported or updated
  • Breaks YouTube functionality
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work
  • Videos not playing
  • Extension is broken
Recent reviews
Very good extension, but it breaks every video so I have to refresh the page to watch the video. Please fix.
by Ed Ed, 2020-04-06

Doesn't work anymore, every video crashes saying "something went wrong" and user needs to reload the page for the video to load. There hasn't been an update for over a year. Look for something else, this one is completely abandoned.

YT Channel trailers still autoplay :(
by Artyom Artyom, 2024-03-22
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Safety
Risk impact

Iridium for YouTube may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Iridium for YouTube has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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