Ambient light for YouTube™

Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!

Ambient Light for YouTube™ Extension

Ambient light for YouTube™ is a Chrome extension that surrounds YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. It offers features such as ambient light, removing black bars, adjusting filters, video customization, settings management, and privacy & security. It also includes advanced features and settings for the best experience.
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Extension stats

Users: 10,000+
Rating: 4.81
(135)
Version: 2.38.10 (Last updated: 2024-08-02)
Creation date: 2020-02-16
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 969.73K

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Ambient light for YouTube™ (v2.38.10)
4.60 (29) 4,097+
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Extension summary

This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!

Tip:

Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.

Features:

  1. Ambient light
  • Blur
  • Spread
  • Fade in duration
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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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Enhances the viewing experience on OLED monitors
  • Works well for ultrawide screens and widescreen content
  • Allows for detailed customization
  • Provides a great ambient light effect that helps with black bars
  • Improves the aesthetic experience of watching YouTube videos
Cons
  • Prevents HDR content from displaying correctly
  • Does not make the search bar transparent
  • Lags video playback on some connections
  • Currently limited to YouTube and does not support other video platforms
Most mentioned
  • Works well with OLED monitors
  • Customization options
  • Compatibility issues with HDR
  • Request for support on other video players
  • Search bar color issue
User reviews
Actually amazing, definitely comes in clutch on an OLED monitor.
by Julian Božić, 2024-12-09

It makes all background pure black rgb(0,0,0) which makes it uncomfortable to read comments.
by Hybert, 2024-12-01

by Պiguel CQ, 2024-11-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Ambient light for YouTube™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Ambient light for YouTube™ has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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