Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs (mostly about Safari).

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Changes

• Added an option to disable enlarged UI elements in theater mode at certain screen sizes on desktop
• Added support for the new under-video related videos layout on desktop
• Added hiding the Share button in fullscreen video on desktop
• Fixed width of channel avatars in search results on desktop
• Fixed hiding related videos when there is no category selector on desktop
• Fixed hiding related videos after navigating between videos on desktop

Availability

New versions have to be reviewed and approved for each browser before they're available to install or upgrade to.

This version is available for the following browsers:

Screenshots

Disable "big mode" in theater mode

Before	After

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Fixes

• Fixed hiding Live, Streamed and Members only videos in Home and Related on desktop
• Fixed hiding the Share menu item in Home and Related videos on desktop
• Fixed videos not being hidden after changing the Home category on desktop
• Fixed handling of dismissed videos when changing categories in Home and Related on desktop
• Fixed resizing some Search thumbnails on desktop
• Fixed hiding the Channel header on mobile

Changes

• The toolbar button now updates to indicate when the Enabled option is off
• Translated the Japanese version of the extension name
• Hide new individual Short grid item in Home on desktop
• Fixed hiding Upcoming videos in Home on desktop, using the new thumbnail format
• Fixed adding CSS when a new tab is left open in the background for a while

Availability

This version is available for the following browsers:

Screenshots

Toolbar button when the Enabled option is off

Firefox / Chrome etc.	macOS Safari	iOS Safari

Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs (mostly about Safari).

Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.

Changes

• Added a Block ads option (default: enabled)
• Added a Disable Ambient mode option (default: enabled)
• Enabled hiding Sponsored videos & promos by default again
• Hide Comments now also hides the Comments button in the Shorts player
• Hide hidden videos now works in Related videos on desktop
• Hide a Download button Premium upsell under videos on desktop
• Fixed new YouTube dropdown type breaking features which monitor dropdowns
• Fixed Hide Sponsored videos & promos being detected by YouTube
• Fixed Full-size theater mode not working due to YouTube CSS changes
• Fixed hiding some ad slots on mobile after YouTube changes
• Fixed paid content overlay not being hidden in video previews
• Fixed Hide hidden videos in Home on desktop
• Removed the Skip ads option since it's no longer needed

Screenshots

Hiding hidden videos which use YouTube's new thumbnail format

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Fixes

• Turned ad-related options off by default until we have mitigations for YouTube's anti-adblock detection
• Fixed the Hide Playlists option hiding every video in Home on desktop
• Fixed hiding Streamed videos in Home on desktop
• Fixed hiding Watched videos in Home on desktop
• Fixed hiding Shorts in Related on desktop

Fixes

• Fixed hiding the Download menu item Premium upsell in new menus
• Fixed adding custom Hide channel menu item to new menus
• Fixed styling of custom menu items in new menus
• Fixed hiding the Share menu item on Related videos on desktop
• Fixed hiding Live videos in Related on desktop
• Fixed hiding Streamed videos in Related on desktop
• Fixed hiding Watched videos by % in Related on desktop
• Fixed muting ad audio when skipping ads on desktop

Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.

Changes

• Added an option to make the YouTube logo link to Subscriptions on desktop
• Added an experimental option to allow background playback on mobile
• Fixed the Hide Playlists option hiding more thumbnails than it should
• Fixed colours and option spacing in iOS Safari settings
• Moved ad-related options up into their own Ads group, with a visible warning that they can trigger YouTube's adblock detection
• Made option groups collapsible and persistent (except in iOS Safari)
• Redirecting Shorts to the normal player on desktop now happens on click instead of waiting for the Shorts player to load first
• Redirecting from Home to Subscriptions on desktop when the Home feed is disabled now happens when you click the YouTube logo instead of waiting for the Home feed to load first

Screenshots

Collapsible option groups

Chrome	Firefox	macOS Safari

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Changes

• Added an option to hide the Remix button on Shorts on desktop
• Added hiding the Shorts chip in Search results when hiding Shorts
• Enabled the Stop Shorts looping option by default
• Fixed downloading a video's Transcript
• Fixed Minimum Shorts per row option after recent YouTube changes
  • Subscriptions now only shows up to a maximum of 6 Shorts
• Fixed hiding Shorts shelves in Search results

Fixes

• Fixed hiding comments on mobile

Changes

• Added an option to hide Premium upsells, e.g. Download menu item, enhanced bitrate quality item - only enable this if you don't have Premium!
• Added an option to hide the suggested actions overlay on Shorts (e.g. searches & comments)
• Added an option to stop Shorts looping
• Added an option to always display the progress bar in Shorts
• Changed the hidden full size theater mode header to display instantly if it gets focused (e.g. press / to search)
• Changed the Hide Share/Thanks/Clip option to hide Share buttons and menu items everywhere
  • Hides the Share button on Shorts
  • When hiding Share menu items, if they had a separator it now gets up to the first visible menu item instead
• Changed the position of the desktop "Hide channel" menu item to below the native Hide/Not interested menu items, above Report
• Fixed the desktop Take snapshot video context menu not working in Shorts
• Fixed hiding more "Open App" menu items on mobile
• Fixed the following features not working in all YouTube display languages:
  • Hiding Members only playlists in a channel's Home tab on mobile
  • Hiding the Next button in the video player on mobile
  • Hiding Shorts navigation items
  • Hiding Open App menu items on mobile

Screenshots

Shorts options