PlayPatch by Jordi Bosch
Enhance YouTube: clean the feed, hide Shorts, upgrade the player, and recolor the interface. Everything local.
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About this extension
PlayPatch makes YouTube cleaner, faster, and yours — no servers, no tracking. Everything is stored locally in your browser.
Feed & Shorts
• Hide Shorts, live streams, watched videos, playlists, mixes, radios, news and the subscriptions list
• Compact grid for more videos per row
• Open Shorts in the normal /watch player
Player
• Boost volume above YouTube's limit
• Default playback speed and quality, picture-in-picture
• Mouse-wheel volume, thicker progress bar, newest comments first
Optimization
• Disable ambient mode, hover previews and animations to save CPU and battery
• Preconnect to speed up loading
Theme
• Replace YouTube's red with any color, across YouTube and YouTube Music
Available in 14 languages. Open source.
Feed & Shorts
• Hide Shorts, live streams, watched videos, playlists, mixes, radios, news and the subscriptions list
• Compact grid for more videos per row
• Open Shorts in the normal /watch player
Player
• Boost volume above YouTube's limit
• Default playback speed and quality, picture-in-picture
• Mouse-wheel volume, thicker progress bar, newest comments first
Optimization
• Disable ambient mode, hover previews and animations to save CPU and battery
• Preconnect to speed up loading
Theme
• Replace YouTube's red with any color, across YouTube and YouTube Music
Available in 14 languages. Open source.
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Permissions and data
Required permissions:
- Access your data for sites in the youtube.com domain
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
More information
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- Version
- 1.0.2
- Size
- 325.25 kB
- Last updated
- 8 days ago (29 Jun 2026)
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- Licence
- MIT Licence
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