Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!
Users
1M
+990K in 30 days
Rating
4.8 / 5
−0.03 in 30 days
Ratings
560
+378 in 30 days
Store rank
#332
#310 among extensions
Version
2.38.17
updated 15 Nov 2025
Users
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:1,000,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 years
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:560 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Ambient light for YouTube™
This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!
Tip:
Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.
Features:
1. Ambient light
- Blur
- Spread
- Fade in duration
2. Remove black & colored bars
- Remove bars
- Remove sidebars
- Also remove colored bars
- Fill video to screen
3. Filters
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Vibrance
- Saturation
4. Video
- Size (scale/zoom)
- Shadow
5. Video page content
- Shadows on elements
- Buttons, boxes and images opacity
- Hide elements in theater mode
- Translucent header
6. Quality
- Limit framerate (per second)
- Resolution
7. General
- Appearance (theme): Light, Default, Dark
- Enable only in view mode(s): small, theater, fullscreen
- Enable in Picture-in-picture mode
- Enabled/Disabled
Advanced features:
1. Ambient light
- Edge size
- Fade out start
- Fade out curve
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
- Flicker reduction
- Smooth motion (Frame blending)
2. Directions
- Top, right, bottom, left
3. Remove black & colored bars
- Bar detection offset
- Bar detection average
- Bar size (manual control)
- Sidebar size (manual control)
- Reset bars next video
4. Video
- Sync video with ambient light
- Debanding (noise/dithering)
5. Video page content
- Hide scrollbar
6. Quality
- Synchronization: Display framerate, Video framerate
- WebGL renderer (Uses less power)
- Save energy on static videos
7. Stats
- Framerate stats
- Frametime stats
- Resolution and drawtime stats
- Bar detection stats
Settings management features:
- Quickly import/export all settings to or from a file or cloud storage
Requirement:
A video card with a score of at least 1000 points in the PassMark G3D Mark benchmark is recommended.
Check your video card's score here: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php
With a score lower than 1000 the extension will still work but it is likely that the YouTube video page will be slow and/or stuttering.
Contribute:
You can view the source code and contribute to this open source project at https://github.com/WesselKroos/youtube-ambilight
Privacy & Security
This extension only runs on tabs that start with the url https://www.youtube.com. The extension will only activate the ambient light effect on YouTube's /watch page
The only requests being sent are crash reports. (But crash reports can be turned off.) No other requests are sent to any webserver, website or api. But in case a crash occurs the report is sent to Sentry.io and will always be deleted after 30 days. Because the only goal of these crash reports is to fix the crash. While doing so we also take into account your Do Not Track preference. For more information about Do Not Track visit https://allaboutdnt.com
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Rating
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+70
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30 days
+990K
+9900.0%
+378
−0.03
6 months
+990K
+9900.0%
+383
0.00
1 year
+990K
+9900.0%
+399
0.00
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