Replace YouTube's Home with Subscriptions Extension
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This small extension is meant to fix the missing setting that would allow avid users to go directly to the Subscriptions section of the YouTube website when clicking the logo. Great for anyone who wants to avoid the Home page by all means. Also redirects the "Home" menu item in the sidebar, or heck, any link that points to https://www.youtube.com/, no matter where it came from.
I used to maintain a userscript for this purpose, but due to YouTube's upcoming Material redesign's use of Polymer 2.0 I simply couldn't work around their event handlers.
This extension is open source, you can find the source code here: https://github.com/SeinopSys/YTMySubs-chrome
User reviews
- Redirects directly to subscriptions page, avoiding the clutter of recommendations.
- Simple and effective solution for managing YouTube viewing.
- Works smoothly without needing to reload the page.
- Helps prevent doom scrolling by focusing on subscribed content.
- Doesn't allow access to the YouTube home page for recommendations.
- Has stopped working for some users after recent YouTube updates.
- Doesn't work when opening YouTube via a desktop shortcut.
- Users appreciate the focus on subscriptions without distractions.
- Desire for occasional access to recommended videos on the home page.
- Users frustrated with recent updates causing functionality issues.
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