# YouTube Restriction Manager

> Control YouTube content restrictions via HTTP headers

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `youtube-restriction-manager`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** cloudwaddie
- **Category:** games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 19
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-08
- **First published:** 2025-09-05
- **Size:** 27 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-restriction-manager/)

## Description

Allows people to change and bypass the restriction mode on YouTube easily by an extension.

## Rankings

- #25,594 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `tabs`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `*://youtubei.googleapis.com/*`
- `*://youtube.googleapis.com/*`
- `*://*.youtube-nocookie.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/youtube-restriction-manager)