Ultimate YouTube Enhancement

For better or worse, YouTube hosts some of the best content on the web.

One of YouTube’s major downsides is that it’s optimized for stealing your attention.

To help mitigate this, I've added a few tools to ensure I stay on task when watching YouTube.

To block ads and improve the overall viewing experience, I use uBlock Origin.
Additionally, I block ads at the DNS level using NextDNS.

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To avoid getting sucked into doomscrolling loops through repeated usage, I use the Cookie AutoDelete extension.

To hide recommended videos in the sidebar, I added the following filter to uBlock Origin:

! Jan 1, 1970 https://www.youtube.com
www.youtube.com###secondary

To eliminate distractions from comments and other UI clutter, I use the YouTube Enhancer extension to automatically enter theater mode and hide YouTube Shorts.

Enhancer extension config:

{
  "button_placements": {
    "copyTimestampUrlButton": "player_controls_right",
    "decreasePlaybackSpeedButton": "player_controls_left",
    "forwardButton": "player_controls_right",
    "hideEndScreenCardsButton": "player_controls_right",
    "increasePlaybackSpeedButton": "player_controls_left",
    "loopButton": "feature_menu",
    "maximizePlayerButton": "feature_menu",
    "openTranscriptButton": "feature_menu",
    "rewindButton": "player_controls_right",
    "screenshotButton": "feature_menu",
    "volumeBoostButton": "feature_menu"
  },
  "custom_css_code": "",
  "deep_dark_custom_theme_colors": {
    "colorShadow": "#383c4a4d",
    "dimmerText": "#cccccc",
    "hoverBackground": "#4e5467",
    "mainBackground": "#22242d",
    "mainColor": "#367bf0",
    "mainText": "#eeeeee",
    "secondBackground": "#242730"
  },
  "deep_dark_preset": "Deep-Dark",
  "enable_automatic_theater_mode": true,
  "enable_automatically_set_quality": false,
  "enable_copy_timestamp_url_button": false,
  "enable_custom_css": false,
  "enable_deep_dark_theme": false,
  "enable_hide_official_artist_videos_from_home_page": false,
  "enable_forced_playback_speed": false,
  "enable_forward_rewind_buttons": false,
  "enable_hide_end_screen_cards": true,
  "enable_hide_end_screen_cards_button": true,
  "enable_hide_live_stream_chat": false,
  "enable_hide_paid_promotion_banner": false,
  "enable_hide_scrollbar": false,
  "enable_hide_shorts": true,
  "enable_hide_translate_comment": false,
  "enable_loop_button": false,
  "enable_maximize_player_button": false,
  "enable_open_transcript_button": false,
  "enable_open_youtube_settings_on_hover": false,
  "enable_pausing_background_players": false,
  "enable_playback_speed_buttons": false,
  "enable_playlist_length": false,
  "enable_redirect_remover": false,
  "enable_remaining_time": false,
  "enable_remember_last_volume": false,
  "enable_screenshot_button": false,
  "enable_scroll_wheel_speed_control": false,
  "enable_scroll_wheel_volume_control": false,
  "enable_scroll_wheel_volume_control_hold_modifier_key": false,
  "enable_scroll_wheel_volume_control_hold_right_click": false,
  "enable_share_shortener": false,
  "enable_shorts_auto_scroll": false,
  "enable_skip_continue_watching": false,
  "enable_video_history": false,
  "enable_volume_boost": false,
  "feature_menu_open_type": "hover",
  "forward_rewind_buttons_time": 5,
  "language": "en-US",
  "osd_display_color": "white",
  "osd_display_hide_time": 750,
  "osd_display_opacity": 75,
  "osd_display_padding": 5,
  "osd_display_position": "center",
  "osd_display_type": "text",
  "playback_buttons_speed": 0.25,
  "player_quality": "auto",
  "player_quality_fallback_strategy": "lower",
  "player_speed": 1,
  "playlist_length_get_method": "api",
  "playlist_watch_time_get_method": "youtube",
  "remembered_volumes": {
    "shortsPageVolume": 100,
    "watchPageVolume": 100
  },
  "screenshot_format": "png",
  "screenshot_save_as": "file",
  "scroll_wheel_speed_control_modifier_key": "altKey",
  "scroll_wheel_volume_control_modifier_key": "ctrlKey",
  "speed_adjustment_steps": 0.25,
  "video_history_resume_type": "prompt",
  "volume_adjustment_steps": 5,
  "volume_boost_amount": 5,
  "volume_boost_mode": "global",
  "youtube_data_api_v3_key": "",
  "enable_automatically_disable_closed_captions": false
}

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