Better YouTube Gaming

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

What is Better YouTube Gaming?

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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By: sparcut

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.81 (37)

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

Creation date: 2019-09-09

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 2.84M

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 8696 ▼ 130

Other rankings

#23108 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 4 #147 in submit keyword 2 ▼ 5

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Summary

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Live notifications are currently only available for one channel (Ice Poseidon) while support for other channels is developed.

Twitch.TV emotes!
GIF emotes!
Hundreds of custom emotes!
Twitch styled chat!
Improved chat!
Tons of enhancements!
Even more coming soon!

Emote Dictionary - https://github.com/sparcut/BetterYTG/tree/master/src/assets/emotes

(BETA WARNING) This extension is still in beta, please be aware you may experience issues. In these (hopefully) rare occasions, please submit the bug on GitHub via the link below. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding.

The extension is fully open source, covered under The GNU General Public License v3.0. If you would like to contribute or submit feature requests, bug reports, issues etc. please follow this link to GitHub.com https://github.com/sparcut/BetterYTG.

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Great emotes from Twitch on Youtube Live
Colored chat names feature
Compact chat feature
Random name colors

Cons

Hasn't been updated in years
Issues with emotes not appearing or working
Some users experiencing bugs and glitches
Extension running unnecessarily at Windows startup
Difficult to access emotes

Most mentioned

Issues with emotes
Bugs and lack of updates
Colored names feature
Comparison to other Youtube Extensions

Recent reviews

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Danya_Danych “LehaKartoha226” Danych, 2023-11-12

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

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Safety

Risk impact

Better YouTube Gaming is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Better YouTube Gaming if you trust the publisher.