# YouTube Keep Playing

> Keep YouTube playing without the annoying “Continue watching?” interruptions — while keeping intentional pauses under your control.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-keep-playing](https://chrome-stats.com/d/youtube-keep-playing)

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-keep-playing`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ussmarines
- **Category:** photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-08
- **First published:** 2026-09-03
- **Size:** 110 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-keep-playing/)

## Description

YouTube paused again? Let’s pretend it didn’t.

YouTube Keep Playing is a lightweight Firefox extension that takes care of YouTube’s inactivity interruptions, so your music, playlists and long videos can keep playing without you having to come back and click “Continue watching”.

Actively maintained and updated as YouTube evolves.
Last updated: September 8, 2026

Put on a playlist, start a long video, work, game, cook, relax… and let the extension handle the annoying interruption for you.

And your pause button is still yours.
If you intentionally pause a video, YouTube Keep Playing leaves it paused. Playback is only resumed when the extension detects a recognized YouTube inactivity confirmation — simply finding a paused video is never enough.

Simple by design
Automatically handles recognized YouTube inactivity interruptions
Hides the related pre-pause inactivity warning while protection is enabled
One-click enable / disable control
Protected interruptions statistics
Local diagnostics and logs
Lightweight and designed specifically for Firefox
Private by design

What you watch is your business.

YouTube Keep Playing has:

no telemetry
no analytics
no account
no backend service
no remote code
no automatic diagnostic uploads

Your diagnostics and statistics stay locally in Firefox.

The extension does not intentionally store or transmit video titles, watch URLs, browsing history, playback positions, cookies, authentication data or account identifiers.

It only requests the Firefox storage permission and access to:
<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/dcea9feb588cc5836afbafef9da251348d7f98d3240b0007edbd73271bc53ea9/https%3A//www.youtube.com/%2A" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/*</a>

Need to troubleshoot something?

Built-in support tools let you manually:

copy a sanitized support report
export local diagnostics as JSON
contact support

Nothing is sent automatically.

Support the project

An optional PayPal donation button is available in the extension. Donations are completely optional and do not unlock features or change how the extension works.

YouTube Music is not currently supported.

## Rankings

- #116,013 — Overall
- #108 — keep

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `www.youtube.com`
- `m.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

> Some risk analysis details are omitted from this free response. [Upgrade to view the full analysis](https://chrome-stats.com/pricing).

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