Reviews for 'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video)
'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (For YouTube & Video) by code-for-charity, ImprovedTube
Review by BWX
Rated 1 out of 5
by BWX, a year agoShould be named "Breaks Youtube". When installed most thumbnails are broken in playlists, they're just blank, and the preview videos in the thumbnails are broken. Add-on seems to break loading of channel page, subscription list, etc, etc.. Just a broken mess. Also no volume boost button. Also cannot delete shortcut keys, even the non standard ones loaded by default. What the ....? Basically worthless since so much is broken.
Developer response
posted a year agohi there! :) Please try again. This project is a rare sisyphos-mission going on since 11 years and for 580 000 users. Please report any bug you might find in detail in our github. We don't set any non-standard youtube hotkeys but only inform you alone the way what are the standards. (This is supposed to be efficient/minimal design, like Apple). The volume boost can be set permanent or a quick button be added easily by a beginner as we prepared well. However i cant do everything alone and might prefer unique work. (You can use any other volume boost extension.) Thanks
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- Rated 2 out of 5by Gemini62167, 5 hours agoA fairly decent extension for YT except that it is losing some of the most desirable functions for some reason. The skip ad feature doesn't work at all no matter what option you choose.
I wouldn't mind the ads so much and let many of them play except for the fact that most of them are so ridiculous, it's like a video example of the kind of ads you find in the National Enquirer. They're utterly unbelievable (or should be), but for whatever reason it appears the same kind of marketing and advertising laws and regulations just don't seem to apply on the internet. You can claim just about anything or misrepresent, twist and bend truth with fact to confuse people into believing things with abandon. Its the same kind of tactics the consrevativce media has been using increasingly since the 1980s. It's been going on for two generations now and trying to point this out, prove fallacy with fact is impossible. And for this, I don't think I nor anyone else should be required to watch this nonsense, I don't care if it's how these videos are monetized or not. Lying and manipulation for the sake of selling product is not an excusable reason. Sorry, I'm one of the few that still believes in ethics in this society. And really, as far as YT is concerned, it wouldn't exist at all if people didn't upload videos to begin with, so I'm not one to fall on my knees in tears over the plight of YT not making enough money to keep its investors happy. They could all go f**k themselves.
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As for the functions of this extension that seemed to have ceased to work, the mixer section does not register any open tabs and thus does not work. And, should you reload your page you will have to hit the extension pinned to your toolbar to get it to begin functioning at all with those options that still work. Sad really. Because for what it is supposed to do, it offers much in a very compact and easy to use design. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17887783, 5 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16847728, 6 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by CAPTECH, 6 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18744881, 6 days agowas working for a period of time but in the last month any settings used would lag youtube; back button and pause taking forever.
removed extension and youtube stared working again, unfortunate as it was a good addition :/Developer response
posted 6 days agohi! :) please don't rate us wrongfully but mind this doesn't start or end with your usage. This is a hardworking volunteer initiative since 12 years, with 150 contributors on github, and inspite we modestly have to race uphill all them time during Youtube changes.
Please don't buy or spread baseless rumors about lags. (Every software will take some time (lke 0.001 second). We changed nothing mad a minor visual update 10 days ago, none in November - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18205130, 7 days agobecause of this extension, YouTube started to hang heavily on my PC, which eventually results in a banner saying that the tab slows down firefox, the same thing on the second PC, but it freezes TIGHTLY.
the exclusion method revealed this extension. oh, it inspired great hopes 😭😭😭
ok, I won't rate it "unfairly".Developer response
posted 6 days agohi! Please don't feed such old myth against browser-extensions.
You don't need a exclusion method but you can actually see exactly how much ram or cpu an extension consumes (usually little)
please don't rate us unfairly. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vindeshwar, 9 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Path of Pain, 13 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jorge, 14 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by darkredandwhite, 17 days agoPlease add an option to move the position of YouTube's subtitles. I believe this feature is built-in on PC, but it's not available on Android. Adding it would be a great improvement.
Developer response
posted 16 days agohi! on m.youtube (mobile layout), most of our page-layout features might not work just yet but playback features like resolution, speed, volume should and several percent of daily users are on android. Let us know or join us on github. Thank you! - Rated 4 out of 5by paulcalebfarmer, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18539647, a month ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Rash, a month agoI am on android Firefox 133.0 with ImproveTube 4.1122
Ad block isn't working
"Shorts" hiding on homepage isn't working - Rated 5 out of 5by flurry, a month agoIts about high time i gave this a great review. without extensions like this one youtube is simply unusable. trim out all the fluff, get rid of all the influencer garbage, the unfair algorythms promoting constant garbage in your face, this extension does a great job at just cleaning up your youtube and finally make it just about the content again. i've been using this for many years now, i should have reviewed it much earlier, but hey better late than never, i hope!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17904911, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by lisandro, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Balkanet, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by denis1276, a month agoThe import/export settings buttons do not work.
The live chat collapsed option has the same behavior as normal, while the hide option leaves an empty space on the right side of the window, collapsing the video description and the recommended videos. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14684219, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18693710, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14169922, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Lestify, a month agoI can barely use the functions provided. Even though they are great the ones I use. Too laggy. Change appearance doesn't work, way to buggy.