# YouTube Time Limiter

> Control your YouTube time with three powerful modes: daily timer, keyword limits, scheduled sessions, allowed hours and parental control. Three powerful modes to manage what your children watch and for how long.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/yt\_time\_limiter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/yt_time_limiter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `yt_time_limiter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Acem-Tech
- **Category:** privacy-security,social-communication,alerts-updates
- **Daily users:** 222
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.260904
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-01
- **First published:** 2024-11-18
- **Size:** 407 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/yt_time_limiter/)
- **Website:** [https://www.acem-tech.uk/](https://www.acem-tech.uk/)

## Description

**YouTube Time Limiter** helps manage YouTube viewing time with three flexible modes: daily or session timers, keyword-based limits, and Mix Mode combining both. Set global or individual keyword quotas, schedule allowed viewing hours, support work/rest sessions, and automatically block YouTube when limits or permitted hours are reached. Timers count only while videos are actively playing and work across videos, Shorts, background tabs, minimized players, and embedded players.

Designed for families and focused screen-time management, the add-on includes password-protected settings, local-only data storage, secure configuration import and export, confirmation prompts for sensitive actions, and customizable redirect behavior. The interface supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Swedish, with remaining time shown in the toolbar icon and real-time controls available at a glance.

## Rankings

- #7,834 — Overall
- #232 — Alerts & Updates
- #14 — limit
- #86 — timer
- #96 — airtime
- #107 — password-protected

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `*://*.youtube.com/*`
- `*://*.youtube-nocookie.com/*`
- `alarms`
- `webNavigation`

### Content script matches

- `*.youtube.com`
- `*.youtube-nocookie.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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 was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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