Iridium for YouTube

Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience with Iridium

Iridium for YouTube - Enhance Your Viewing Experience

"Iridium for YouTube" is a powerful Chrome extension that empowers users to customize their YouTube experience. With features for ad management, video quality controls, and enhanced navigation, it allows you to tailor the platform to your preferences. This extension also simplifies your interface, ensuring an enjoyable and streamlined viewing experience. Enjoy advanced settings like disabling autoplay, controlling video speed, and managing channel visibility, all while keeping your data private.
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Extension stats

By: Particle
Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.05
(480)
Version: 2.1.2 (Last updated: 2024-09-19)
Creation date: 2019-01-05
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • *://www.youtube.com/*
Size: 1.18M

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Iridium for YouTube (v2.1.2)
3.96 (627) 1,200+
Not available on Edge
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Extension 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

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
  • Effectively disables YouTube autoplay
  • The disable 60 fps function works
  • Reverse playlist feature was initially working for some users
  • Developer was responsive and helpful in fixing issues
  • Some features improve user experience on YouTube
Cons
  • Causes videos to load slowly or not at all
  • Many features are reported as broken or malfunctioning
  • Bug with mini player appearing despite being disabled
  • Sets off YouTube's adblock detector
  • Reverse playlist feature not working for multiple users
Most mentioned
  • Videos not buffering or playing properly
  • Autoplay function working well
  • Mini player issue
  • Reverse playlist inconsistencies
  • Developer support and updates
User reviews
This extension make videos load far slower
by Liam, 2024-11-26

The video focus mode seems to be broken. It doesn't work at all times. Sometimes it doesn't work and i have to toggle it off/on.
by Xavier Thomsen, 2024-11-25

by chaturong gatenil, 2024-10-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Iridium for YouTube requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

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