Better YouTube Shorts
Take back the controls on YouTube Shorts with playback, volume, progress bar and more!
What is Better YouTube Shorts?
"Better YouTube Shorts" is a Chrome extension designed to enhance the user experience of watching YouTube Shorts. It adds a suite of customizable controls typically found in regular YouTube video players such as a visible progress bar, playback speed adjustment, volume control, and custom keybinds. Additionally, the extension supports features like auto-skipping, fullscreen mode, showing the view count, and the ability to start videos from the beginning. It is open-source and supports multiple languages, catering to a diverse user base. This tool is meant for those looking to have greater control and an improved viewing experience on YouTube Shorts.
Extension stats
By: Young Shung
Users: 30,000+
Rating: 4.60
(175)
Creation date: 2023-08-26
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
Size: 108.54K
Email: *****@ynshung.com
Ranking
# 4928
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Extension summary
⏭️ Control your YouTube Shorts just like a normal YouTube video! Features include progress bar, seeking, playback speed, auto skip and more. You can also customize the keybinds to your liking!
List of features:
- Progress bar at the bottom with time and duration
- Seeking 5 seconds backward and forward with arrow keys (adjustable time)
- Mini timestamp and speed above the like button (can be scrolled on!)
- Fullscreen support with F key and double click
- Decrease and increase playback speed with keys U and O
- Click the speed button to revert to normal speed or toggle between different speeds
- Toggle to auto skip short when current one ends
- Control volume with the volume slider or with - and =, mute audio with M
- Customizable keybinds
- 🌐 Supports more than 10 languages!
Extra features:
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Pros
- Enhances autoplay functionality for YouTube Shorts
- Intuitive interface for easy navigation
- Works great on standard Google Chrome
Cons
- Progress bar functionality is inconsistent or missing
- Issues with compatibility on Chrome beta and dev versions
- Cannot switch audio tracks on Shorts
Most mentioned
- Progress bar issues (not shown or non-functional)
- Auto-scroll feature causing frustration
- Arrow keys functioning for navigation
Recent reviews
When going to or coming out from full screen, the short gets skipped automatically
very good, but it's missing a feature: we can't switch audio track on shorts. i don't know why youtube did that, and i hate them for it, but i have to find an alternative. and there isn't for now
Extension safety
Risk impact
Better YouTube Shorts is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Better YouTube Shorts has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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