YouTube - Show Full View Count and Date (unless hovering)

Brings back the full view count and date to the description box.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey, Greasemonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey or Userscripts to install this script.

You will need to install an extension such as Tampermonkey to install this script.

You will need to install a user script manager extension to install this script.

(I already have a user script manager, let me install it!)

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install an extension such as Stylus to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

You will need to install a user style manager extension to install this style.

(I already have a user style manager, let me install it!)

Author
lednerg
Daily installs
0
Total installs
612
Ratings
4 1 0
Version
23.7.26
Created
2022-11-01
Updated
2023-07-26
Size
2.55 KB
License
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Applies to

[This is for the latest Youtube layout which they've started rolling out in Oct/Nov of 2022.]

This script brings back the full view count and date to the description box under the YouTube player. Instead of "1.7M views 2 years ago" it will say "1,739,201 views • Dec 12, 2019" in the description box. In case you need to see the default numbers, just hover the mouse over the description box.

Normally there's a tooltip that appears when you hover over the view count, and it shows the full view count and date. This CSS script works by keeping that tooltip visible and repositioning it over the default numbers. This is just a simple CSS stylesheet, it's not a Userscript.

To be clear, this thing is not perfect. On certain videos, the date will be positioned higher than it should, which is just a limitation of doing this kind of thing with a stylesheet instead of javascript. I actually don't use this stylesheet myself anymore, so I'm really not that interested in spending hours rewriting and testing it to make it perfect. I put plenty of explanations in the code so you can tinker around with it if you want.