Better YouTube Gaming

BetterYTG enhances YouTube Gaming Livestream's with more emotes (Twitch, BTTV Emotes), new features, and more.

Better YouTube Gaming: Enhancing Live-stream Experience

Better YouTube Gaming is a Chrome extension, designed to enrich the YouTube Gaming livestream's experience. It incorporates Twitch and GIF emotes, hundreds of custom emotes, a Twitch-styled chat, improved chat functionalities, and several enhancements. Although currently, live notifications are available solely for the Ice Poseidon channel, support for other channels is under progress. As the extension is still in beta, users are encouraged to report any bugs or issues on GitHub. It is open source and covered under The GNU General Public License v3.0.

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Extension stats

By: sparcut

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.78

(36)

Version: 0.3.0 (Last updated: 2019-09-10)

Creation date: 2019-09-09

Permissions:

storage
background
tabs
https://*.ytimg.com/*
https://twitchemotes.com/*

Size: 2.84M

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 8,540 ▲ 53

Other rankings

#22513 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 606 #144 in submit keyword 2 ▼ 2 #252 in channel keyword 37 ▼ 2 #291 in youtube keyword 87 ▲

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Works perfectly for some users
Compact chat feature is nice
Random name colors enhance chat experience
Great emotes from Twitch available on YouTube Live
Colored names in chat are appreciated by users

Cons

Many features are outdated or no longer functional
Frequent bugs that disrupt normal usage
Emotes often do not show up or function properly
Extension has not been updated in a long time
Issues with pop-out chat and scrolling in chat

Most mentioned

Extension is outdated and has bugs
Emotes do not show or function properly
Colored names in chat are a positive feature
Pop-out chat breaks the extension
Overall functionality issues when using during live streams

User reviews

It's good but has some bugs. Better YouTube Live is a better option now I think.

Em Me, 2021-11-09

Hasn't been updated in 2 years. Most of the features no longer work. Appears the github project is basically dead. Anyone want to fork the project?

Jimmy Navio, 2021-09-02

Update your outdated extension to the newest one.

Don't watch muh videos and don't scrubskribe, 2021-09-02

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Better YouTube Gaming requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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