YT re:Watch Autor: Edin User

Keep your YouTube progress private and independent from your Google account.

YT re:Watch saves meaningful playback locally, so you can find watched videos, resume unfinished ones, and build a personal YouTube companion around channels you choose to follow. It also works while logged out.

What you can do

• Keep an account-independent history of regular videos and Shorts.
• Resume videos from locally saved playback positions.
• See viewed indicators, progress, and available video durations.
• Follow channels locally without changing your YouTube subscriptions.
• Browse a locally arranged Home feed and chronological Subscriptions inventory.
• Save videos to a local Watch Later list.
• Create and manage extension-owned local playlists.
• Search saved history and cached feed records without remote YouTube search.
• Review channels ignored by a subscription import.
• Explore local watch-time, completion, activity, and channel analytics.
• Export and restore supported profile data with JSON backups.
• Customize theme, overlay appearance, retention, and feed behavior.

Optional AI-label handling

YT re:Watch can optionally handle videos that YouTube labels as made with AI. Choose whether to show a badge, dim those videos, or hide them in re:Watch.

This feature is Off by default. It uses YouTube’s own disclosure, not general AI detection: an unmarked video is not confirmed non-AI.

How the local feed works

re:Watch retrieves public upload feeds for channels you follow locally. Home arranges cached uploads using local viewing and feedback signals. Subscriptions shows the cached inventory chronologically in stable 50-video pages.

Reload videos scans eligible followed channels for new uploads. Refresh redraws the current local data without starting a scan. Show opens the complete chronological subscription inventory.

Privacy and account boundaries

History, progress, local subscriptions, feed state, analytics, settings, Watch Later items, and local playlists remain in the current Firefox profile.

YT re:Watch has no account system or cloud-sync service. It does not use OAuth, perform remote YouTube search, or change subscriptions, playlists, or history in your YouTube account.

Direct public RSS and channel-metadata requests omit browser credentials. Thumbnails and channel artwork may load from YouTube-owned image hosts. YT re:Watch is not an anonymity tool: YouTube, Firefox, and your network can still observe normal browsing activity.

Use Backup and Restore to move supported data manually between browser profiles or devices. There is no automatic cross-device synchronization.

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