Ambient light for YouTube™

Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!

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Ambient Light for YouTube™ is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enrich your video watching experience by adding ambient light effects around YouTube videos. No additional hardware is needed as the extension creates vibrant ambient lighting inside your browser window, enhancing immersion and visual appeal.

Featuring customizable options like blur, spread, fade duration, and various filters such as brightness, contrast, vibrance, and saturation, this tool allows users to tailor the atmosphere effortlessly. It also removes distracting black bars and sidebars, fills the screen, and offers advanced controls including synchronized lighting, flicker reduction, and power-saving WebGL rendering. With settings import/export capabilities and privacy-conscious design, Ambient Light for YouTube™ brings a cinematic touch to your videos while respecting your security and preferences.

By:: Wezelkrozum
Users:: 10,000+
Rating:: 4.82

(147) 2 new ratings
Version:: 2.38.12 (Last updated: 2025-01-31)
Creation date:: 2020-02-16
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
Size:: 1.02M
Email:: we*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 21 hours ago

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# 7,151 ▲ 30

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#56 in Functionality & UI

#5 in light keyword 39

#43 in contribute keyword 9 ▲ 1

#124 in resolution keyword 12 ▲ 12

#152 in quality keyword 31 ▲ 1

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Ambient light for YouTube™ (v2.38.12)

1,366+ 4.97

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Ambient light for YouTube™ (v2.38.12)

4,024+ 4.60

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User reviews

Pros

Restores the ambient lighting mode that YouTube removed, improving the viewing experience.
Works well in theater/cinema mode and with ultrawide screens, extending the ambient light to black bars for immersion.
Highly customizable with many settings to personalize the effect.
Lightweight and runs smoothly without issues.
Compatible with other YouTube extensions and enhances overall use.

Cons

Search bar remains black or solid dark while playing videos, making it hard to read or inconsistent with ambient lighting.
The latest update causes issues with resizing, requiring manual adjustment to properly fit the screen.
Causes background to be pure black RGB(0,0,0), which makes reading comments uncomfortable for some users.
May prevent HDR content from displaying in HDR, leading to less vibrant colors when extension is active.

Recent reviews

esta perfecto, pero estaria mejor poder mejorar la iluminacion, tamaño y brillo

brian sabil, 2025-04-25

Nice

Andrew Negativo, 2025-04-20

muy buena extencion, al fin tengo mi ambient light en Theater, que tengan un bonito dia.

Zoutold, 2025-03-21

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Ambient light for YouTube™ 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

Ambient light for YouTube™ has earned a fairly good reputation and likely 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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