# uTube

> Show an embedded video on a simple blank page when visiting a YouTube video link.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/utube](https://chrome-stats.com/d/utube)

## Overview

- **ID:** `utube`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** RealityRipple
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 16
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Last updated:** 2024-07-27
- **First published:** 2023-11-21
- **Size:** 15 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/utube/)
- **Website:** [https://realityripple.com/](https://realityripple.com/)

## Description

This extension redirects video and playlist pages on YouTube to their embedded versions. This lets videos load faster, hides comments, and often skips ads. You can also control if videos auto-play.
Videos that can not be embedded will automatically redirect to the default YouTube page, as will clicking the "Watch on YouTube" banner.

## Rankings

- #27,198 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `*://www.youtube.com/*`
- `*://m.youtube.com/*`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `utube.realityripple.com`
- `www.youtube.com`
- `www.youtube-nocookie.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com, realityripple.com, youtube-nocookie.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/utube)