I want to like this extension so badly. It seems so promising. It's free and made by volunteers and open source.

But I've been trying it off and on for months now, and during that time I've tried it on 4 different browsers and 3 different operating systems (two desktop, one mobile), and it's always broken in multiple ways, and it always absolutely murders Firefox's performance.

Yes, I tried disabling other youtube and adblock extensions. And I tried running Improve Youtube alone and in private mode, with no other extensions. No dice.

And no, my computer is not a potato (nor is my phone). And this is the only addon that's been causing me problems like this.

This extension is just extremely broken, all the time, always. It feels like a super early alpha release, not a finished addon.

You can report issues on github, but even *if* that leads to the issue getting fixed in a halfway timely manner, there are always additional issues occuring at the same time.

There's no predicting which options in the settings menu will work, or which will break even more things, and seemingly aaaaaaall of them tank the browser's performance.

I genuinely don't understand how this addon is getting good reviews. I can imagine it might become an incredible addon eventually, if the tsunami of problems is ever overcome, and I really hope it does, but for right now... Don't waste your time, like I did. There are alternatives to this addon that actually work, and reliably so.

I'd only recommend installing this addon if you're wanting to get involved in developing it, by way of a hobby project.