YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI

Updates the Desktop YouTube UI to have rounded corners and further enhancements and tweaks.

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YouTube Refined is a Chrome extension designed to elevate your desktop YouTube experience by polishing the user interface with elegant rounded corners and subtle visual enhancements. Tailored for both light and dark modes, it enriches various UI components without altering any of YouTube's core functionalities.

Key features include spacious video listings with hover animations in the Subscriptions feed, rounded and animated elements around the video player and its controls, distinct comment separations with enhanced padding and borders, and intuitive indicators for related and previously watched videos. Additionally, the user menu and search bar receive aesthetic tweaks that improve clarity and usability. This extension keeps pace with YouTube’s updates to maintain a seamless refined look throughout your browsing.

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By:: Thomas Carter
Users:: 1,000
Rating:: 4.50

(22)
Version:: 1.0.1 Last updated: 2022-10-18
Creation date:: 2021-10-15
Risk:: Low risk impact Very low risk likelihood
Size:: 13.08KB
Email:: th*****@bluedino.co.uk
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 23,548 ▲ 333

Other rankings

#1667 in Just for Fun ▲ 5

#41 in improve keyword 34

#103 in increase keyword 60 ▲ 9

#143 in animation keyword 14 ▲ 7

#217 in item keyword 48 ▲ 12

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Tube Refiner for YouTube™ (v1.0.0)

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User reviews

Users highly appreciate the extension for improving and modernizing YouTube's interface with a cleaner, rounded, and smoother design. However, multiple users point out the need for customization options to toggle features individually. Issues with dark mode visibility and minor UI glitches like overlapping borders in comments were also noted. The forced disabling of YouTube's Ambient mode is another common concern. Overall, the extension is well-liked but could benefit from enhanced configurability and small bug fixes.

Pros

Improves YouTube's UI making it look cleaner and more refined
Adds a modern and rounded aesthetic to YouTube's interface
Enhances user experience by making YouTube feel smoother and visually pleasing
Highly appreciated by users who want a better and cleaner YouTube look
Users find the layout decent and very nice

Cons

Lack of customization options to enable or disable individual features
Issues with dark mode visibility, specifically the 'Continue Watching' text hard to read
Some UI glitches such as overlapping borders around 'view replies' in comments
Does not allow turning off certain features like comment separation boxes
Forces disabling of YouTube's Ambient mode, which some users dislike

Recent reviews

surprised by all its functions.

Sa*****, 2024-12-22

Not bad, I guess; it does what it claims to do.

Ke*****, 2024-05-01

I love the extension. That being said, I have noticed that when you highlight the "view replies" function in the comments, the oval around it overlaps the comment's border. It's a very small thing, but it'd be cool to see it addressed

Al*****, 2024-03-24

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YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

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YouTube Refined: Improve's YouTube UI has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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