Better YouTube Shorts
Take back the controls on YouTube Shorts with playback, volume, timestamp controls and more.
What is Better YouTube Shorts?
Better YouTube Shorts is a Chrome extension that allows you to take control of your YouTube Shorts experience with playback, volume, and timestamp controls. It includes features like progress bar, seeking, playback speed adjustment, and more.
Extension stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on
2023-08-21 due to Chrome Web Store policy violation
By: Young Shung
Users: 16,533+ 
Rating: 4.59
(99)
Creation date: 2022-06-06
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
- storage
Size: 28.50K
Email: *****@ynshung.com
URLs: Website
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Extension summary
Control your YouTube shorts just like a normal YouTube video! Features include progress bar, seeking, playback speed, auto skip and more. You can also customize the keybinds to your liking!
List of Features:
- Progress bar at the bottom with time and duration
- Seeking 5 seconds backward and forward with arrow keys
- Auto skip short when current one ends
- Auto skip short with likes below custom threshold (e.g. 500 likes)
- Auto open comment section on each short
- Decrease and increase playback speed with keys U and O
- Revert to normal speed with I or by clicking the speed button
- Control volume with the volume slider or with - and =, mute audio with M
- Mini timestamp and speed above the like button (can be scrolled on!)
- Navigate to previous or next short without animation with W and S
- Go to the next frame or previous frame with . and , while paused
- Customizable keybinds
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spammy, or outdated.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
- Customizable features
- Volume control
- Seekbar control
- Allows mouse control for playback
- Fixes broken YouTube features
- Ability to pause autoplay for reading comments
- Option to hide overlays on videos
Cons
- Requires manual updates
- May cause conflicts with other extensions
- Stopped working after recent update
- No longer works on some devices
Most mentioned
- Great extension
- Stopped working
- Broken as of August 4th
- Please fix
Recent reviews
works better now
by 
Gat Darn, 2023-08-18
Gat Darn, 2023-08-18Amazing extension, found it by searching.
by 
1234, 2023-08-13
1234, 2023-08-13this was remarkable to use but as of the last update most of the features broke
update: fixed :D
by 
eihab01, 2023-08-11
eihab01, 2023-08-11Extension safety
Risk impact
Better YouTube Shorts requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Better YouTube Shorts is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.
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