BetterRBTV

Comfort functions for YouTube™ Live and YouTube™ Gaming Live.

BetterRBTV: Enhance YouTube™ Live Streaming Experience

BetterRBTV is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your YouTube™ Live viewing experience. It includes features such as hiding avatars to save space, color-coded author names, keyword conversion to emojis, customizable chat emotes, message filtering, and user muting or highlighting. Developed by fans of the German channel Rocket Beans TV, this extension is not affiliated nor endorsed by them. Note that YouTube™ is a registered trademark of Google Inc.
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Extension stats

Users: 558
-24
Rating: 4.74
(38)
Version: 18.12 (Last updated: 2020-11-19)
Creation date: 2018-12-22
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 250.88K

Other platforms

Not available on Android
BetterRBTV (v18.8resigned1)
5.00 (4) 74
BetterRBTV (v18.12)
4.70 (3) 392
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Extension summary

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Adds configurable comfort functions to YouTube™ Gaming:

  • Cosmetics (hide avatars, save space when displaying messages, colored author names)
  • Converts certain keywords from another well-known streaming site into emojis
  • Tired of standard emotes? Customize them using emote packs (only visible to yourself)
  • Filter chat messages
  • Mute or highlight users

-- This extension was created by fans of the German channel Rocket Beans TV. It is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by them.

YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Improves YouTube Gaming chat experience
  • Offers features similar to BetterTTV
  • User-friendly and functional
  • Highly appreciated by users
  • Good application overall
Cons
  • Doesn't work for some users
  • Chat colorization feature is broken
  • Lacks auto-highlight options for mod and streamer messages
  • No functionality with chat replays
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't seem to work
  • It's similar to BetterTTV but for YouTube
  • Thank you for the extension
  • Great for YouTube Gaming chat
  • Needs additional features and improvements
User reviews
Doesn't seem to work :(
by Korutz, 2022-05-25

İt doesn't colorize the chat anymore
by Abraham, 2020-12-09

Might be the best Youtube Chat extension around at the moment. All that is missing imo is an option to auto-highlight mod messages (& streamer messages if it doesn't already). Also functionality with chat replays would also be nice.
by Matt, 2020-09-27
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Extension safety

Risk impact

BetterRBTV requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

BetterRBTV has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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