Control Panel for YouTube

Gives you more control over YouTube by adding missing options and UI improvements

These are all versions of this script. Show only the versions where the code changed.

  • v16 14.02.2025

    • Fixed removing pink from progress bars on mobile
    • Fixed removing pink from some missed progress bar variants on desktop
    • Fixed border-color on options in iOS dark mode

  • v15 14.02.2025

    • Fixed removing pink from the video progress bar on desktop
    • Fixed hiding the Share button under videos on mobile

  • v14 25.01.2025

    • Fixed the Hide Channel menu item not being visible on mobile, after a YouTube menu implementation change
    • Fixed looking for the theater mode button on mobile (this is a desktop-only feature)
    • Changed the Hide Channel menu item to display above the Cancel item on larger mobile screens

  • v13 17.01.2025

    • Added an option to always use theater mode on desktop
    • Added an option to hide Movies and TV
    • Added an option to hide information panels
    • Fixed a mobile video page layout issue when options are changed

  • v12 17.01.2025

    • Added an option to always use theater mode on desktop
    • Added an option to hide Movies and TV
    • Added an option to hide information panels
    • Fixed a mobile video page layout issue when options are changed

  • v12 09.01.2025

    • Hide AI summaries in Search results on desktop
    • Remove pink from the page progress bar on desktop
    • Fixed hiding "Search with your voice" on mobile
    • Fixed hiding the ad slot immediately below video comments on mobile
    • Hide new grid format for Shorts in Home on mobile
    • Fixed hiding suggested sections for logged-out users in Home on mobile

  • v11 09.01.2025

    hideAI (default: true)
    • Hide the AI Summary under videos

    hideVideoMetadata:
    • Hide the Music block on mobile

    hideChat:
    • Hide the new "Live chat replay" panel in video metadata
    • Hide the new element creating space for the chat panel in theater mode

    hideMixes:
    • Fixed hiding Mixes in Search results and Related videos on desktop

  • v10 31.12.2024
  • v9 03.11.2024
    • Added an option to remove the new pink fade from the desktop progress bar
    • Hiding watched videos no longer applies to Search results
  • v8 11.08.2024
    • Fixed layout issues in Home and Subscriptions on desktop when videos are hidden (due to YouTube's new grid implementation)
    • Removed the fillGaps option for desktop, as it's no longer needed with YouTube's new grid implementation

    hideSuggestedSections:

    • Fixed Shorts being hidden in Home
    • Fixed Recommended playlists not being hidden when viewing a Playlist
  • v6 03.08.2024
    • Fixed hiding watched videos, streams and VODs, and hidden channels in Home and Subscriptions on desktop (again)
    • Fixed skipping ads
  • v5 31.07.2024

    Fixed hiding watched videos, streams and VODs, and hidden channels in Home and Subscriptions on desktop

  • v4 30.07.2024

    New options for desktop YouTube:

    • Full size theater mode
    • Hide Miniplayer button
    • Search thumbnail size, which by default reverts the recent size increase YouTube made to search result thumbnails
    • Minimum grid items per row, for Home and Subscriptions

    hideSuggestedSections:

    • Now also hides Recommended videos and Recommended playlists when viewing a (non-Watch Later) playlist
  • v3 07.03.2024
    • Improved the Japanese translation (thanks @Catastravia)
    • Fixed disconnectObservers() only disconnecting page observers

    hideShareThanksClip:

    • Added a new option to hide the Share/Thanks/Clip buttons under a video (not enabled by default)

    hideChannels:

    • You can now hide a channel while watching one of its videos - a "Hide channel" item is added to the video's ⋯ menu
    • This becomes an "Unhide channel" menu item if the channel is already hidden

    hideOpenApp:

    • Fixed hiding "Open App" links when using YouTube in Japanese

    hideSponsored:

    • Fixed related videos being hidden in the mobile version at tablet sizes when they contained an ad
  • v2 25.02.2024

    Mobile version fixes and changes

    hideNextButton:

    • always hide the Next button on mobile, as it takes you to a random video, even if you just used the Previous button
    • (continue to only show the Previous button when it's enabled)

    hideSponsored:

    • fixed the ad immediately under mobile videos not being hidden

    hideSuggestedSections:

    • only try to hide suggested sections on mobile when logged in, to avoid hiding the "Try searching to get started" home page you can get when browsing privately

    mobileGridView:

    • fixed non-video items in Search still being full-width
    • fixed watched/streamed/hidden channel videos not being hidden in Search when using the grid view
  • v1 25.02.2024
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  • v1 25.02.2024