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Changes
Note
More of Control Panel for YouTube's options are now enabled by default
Default options now include:
- Making more room for regular videos by hiding stream VODs, Mixes, Members only and Upcoming videos, and low-view videos in Related
- Increasing the number of videos visible at once in Home, Subscriptions, and Search
- Hiding non-essential UI elements which add clutter, tidying the sidebar on desktop, fixing common UI annoyances, and reverting weird UI changes YouTube makes
Any options you've already manually configured will not be affected by this change
New
- Added install and significant update pages to the website for with information about the new default options, with instructions on how to open and pin the options popup
- Added new Auto +1/+2/+3 options to Grid items per row which shows 1, 2 or 3 more thumbnails than YouTube natively wants to show in grids on desktop, or 1 more thumbnail when YouTube wants to display 1 or 2
- Added an option to display the Home grid as a list
- Added an option to animate removing videos which were hidden using YouTube's built-in Hide/Not interested/Don't recommend channel functionality on desktop (enabled by default unless your device is configured for reduced motion)
- Added an option to hide the "Experiencing interruptions?" popup - if it's not being hidden, we make the popup message more accurate and hide the link about turning off your adblocker instead
- Added an option to fix YouTube's grid loading placeholders and spinner in Home and Subscriptions on desktop so they match thumbnail size, flow correctly, only one row's worth of placeholders, and the spinner always appears below the rest of the grid
Changed
- Disabling themed hover effects now also applies to the Subscriptions page on desktop
- Hide video metadata now also hides clutter in the full screen description panel on desktop
- Restored the default touch response colours when disabling themed hover effects
- Changed the Chinese version of the extension name to be more explicitly "for YouTube"
- Enabled Hide Premium upsells by default, but made it do nothing for Premium users
Fixed
- Fixed ads not being blocked on /watch pages which have been left open for a long time
- Fixed reverting the Related sidebar to its old width and min-width on desktop
- Fixed how list view handles the Shorts shelf, the legacy video renderer for Movies & TV videos, and items which don't have a channel avatar or channel link
- Fixed certain desktop menus not being detected the first time they're opened in the current tab, e.g. the video menu in Home which we add Hide channel to
- Fixed Automatically pause channel trailers pausing if you try to manually play the trailer after the Featured tab loads
- Fixed an error when the Save menu is opened on a /watch page
- Fixed a bunch of potential future crashes where we were assuming an element will exist
- Fixed Hide "More videos" in full screen hiding the new default end screen videos outside of full screen
- Fixed Hide video endscreen content hiding "More videos" content in full screen
Removed
- Removed the New video player UI → Always use compact play button option, as YouTube seems to have removed the giant play button
Screenshots
New Auto +1/+2/+3 options for grid items per row
These options allow you to have more items per row while still scaling down at smaller window sizes
e.g.: Auto +2 displays 2 more grid items than vanilla YouTube wants to:
| Vanilla YouTube | Grid items per row: Auto +2 |
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The Auto options always only add 1 extra item when YouTube wants to display 1 or 2:
| 3 items instead of 2 | 2 items instead of 1 |
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Removing Hidden / Not interested videos is now animated by default (unless you have a reduced motion preference active)
If multiple items are hidden at once, the animation is delayed until the last item's Undo timer finishes
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This also applies to list view:
Fixed YouTube's Home and Subscriptions grid loading UI on desktop
| Before | After |
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Made the "Experiencing interruptions?" popup more accurate
If you don't use the new option to hide the popup (we personally find the popup reassuring, and it's nice to have something to look at), we make its message more accurate
Display the Home feed as a list
We've also made fixes and improvements to how other items appear in list view, e.g. the Shorts shelf is now more compact if you're not hiding Shorts:
