# YT re:Watch

> Keep YouTube history and progress locally, follow channels, browse a private feed, and optionally handle videos YouTube labels as made with AI.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `yt-rewatch`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Edin User
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 48
- **Weekly downloads:** 5
- **Rating:** 4.29 / 5 (7 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-04
- **First published:** 2024-07-29
- **Size:** 337 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yt-rewatch/)
- **Website:** [https://community.kirilov.dev/t/re-watch](https://community.kirilov.dev/t/re-watch)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yt-rewatch/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yt-rewatch/privacy/)

## Description

<strong>Keep your YouTube progress private and independent from your Google account.</strong>

YT re:Watch saves meaningful playback locally, so you can find watched videos, resume unfinished ones, and build a personal YouTube companion around channels you choose to follow. It also works while logged out.

<strong>What you can do</strong>
<ul><li>Keep an account-independent history of regular videos and Shorts.</li><li>Resume videos from locally saved playback positions.</li><li>See viewed indicators, progress, and available video durations.</li><li>Follow channels locally without changing your YouTube subscriptions.</li><li>Browse a locally arranged Home feed and chronological Subscriptions inventory.</li><li>Save videos to a local Watch Later list.</li><li>Create and manage extension-owned local playlists.</li><li>Search saved history and cached feed records without remote YouTube search.</li><li>Review channels ignored by a subscription import.</li><li>Explore local watch-time, completion, activity, and channel analytics.</li><li>Export and restore supported profile data with JSON backups.</li><li>Customize theme, overlay appearance, retention, and feed behavior.</li></ul>
<strong>Optional AI-label handling</strong>

YT re:Watch can optionally handle videos that YouTube labels as made with AI. Choose whether to show a badge, dim those videos, or hide them in re:Watch.

This feature is <strong>Off</strong> by default. It uses YouTube’s own disclosure, not general AI detection: an unmarked video is not confirmed non-AI.

<strong>How the local feed works</strong>

re:Watch retrieves public upload feeds for channels you follow locally. Home arranges cached uploads using local viewing and feedback signals. Subscriptions shows the cached inventory chronologically in stable 50-video pages.

<strong>Reload videos</strong> scans eligible followed channels for new uploads. <strong>Refresh</strong> redraws the current local data without starting a scan. <strong>Show</strong> opens the complete chronological subscription inventory.

<strong>Privacy and account boundaries</strong>

History, progress, local subscriptions, feed state, analytics, settings, Watch Later items, and local playlists remain in the current Firefox profile.

YT re:Watch has no account system or cloud-sync service. It does not use OAuth, perform remote YouTube search, or change subscriptions, playlists, or history in your YouTube account.

Direct public RSS and channel-metadata requests omit browser credentials. Thumbnails and channel artwork may load from YouTube-owned image hosts. YT re:Watch is not an anonymity tool: YouTube, Firefox, and your network can still observe normal browsing activity.

Use Backup and Restore to move supported data manually between browser profiles or devices. There is no automatic cross-device synchronization.

<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/99ea0916e17a0306e0ab3312cb86928ae90f4f84fa0908755ab8add23a249b0f/https%3A//github.com/EdinUser/YouTubeLocalHistory/tree/main/docs" rel="nofollow">Read the complete guide</a>

## Rankings

- #16,522 — Overall
- #34 — match
- #39 — watch
- #56 — handle
- #111 — label
- #171 — progress

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `scripting`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `*://*.youtube.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`

## Safety

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

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