YouTube URL Cleaner

Name: YouTube URL Cleaner
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: biyte

By: biyte

Remove unnecessary timestamps & user unfriendly codes from links within YouTube.

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This also removes a few other codes that provide no benefit for the user, such as codes that are attached if you received YouTube bell notifications for the video, and other user tracking/analytics type codes. Make copy pasting the address to share media give you much cleaner links.

Even without YouTube timecodes, you can resume videos, so I decided the downsides (as outlined below) of timecodes outweighed their utility.

This is helpful for any long-content viewers who may watch in multiple sessions and (vods, video essay viewers) and have their browser set to 'restore previous session'. If the timestamps are hard coded into the url, then restoring the previous session will send you to a fixed point in the video every time, making it have the opposite of useful for resuming.

This will make resuming navigating to and resuming videos in your browser slightly less accurate (maybe a few seconds behind your last watched moment).

Note: Timecodes can still be used just fine, just the thumbnails you click in your browser will no longer automatically have timecodes if you have partially watched videos.

code at: https://github.com/biyte-w/yt-url-cleaner-addon

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

biyte

Daily users:

Rating:

5.00

(1)

Version:

1.0 Last updated: 2026-02-22

Version code:

6155030

Creation date:

2026-02-19

Risk:

Content scripts matches:

*.youtube.com

Size:

14.63KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-15

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 27,576 ▼ 209

Other rankings

#57 in cleaner keyword 35 ▼ 1#207 in benefit keyword 10 ▼ 3

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Developed by:

biyte

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-url-cleaner/

User Reviews

I've been looking for something like this for months, and I'd gotten nearly annoyed enough to figure out how to code it myself. But now I don't have to. In general, always be careful of zero-review extensions. But I've checked the source code of what gets actually installed (it's the same as on the github link) - it's tiny, basic javascript that clearly only scrubs the links on the local page you load on your browser for the stuff the description says, and does nothing else. Does exactly what it says and nothing else, removes yet another hostile/nonsense design element of YouTube, and even the share with timestamp feature still works when you actually want such a link. This is exactly what the open internet was made for. Thank you. Five stars.

by Di*****, 2026-02-28

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Is YouTube URL Cleaner Safe?

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YouTube URL Cleaner requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Request access to the following domains: youtube.com
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YouTube URL Cleaner is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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