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Iridium for YouTube

by Particle · Tools
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience with Iridium

Users
10K
0 in 30 days
Rating
2.9 / 5
−1.09 in 30 days
Ratings
513
+1 in 30 days
Store rank
#6,892
#5,922 among extensions
Version
2.1.2
updated 19 Sep 2024

Users

monthly, 3 years
3,0006,50010KAug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 10,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
100306513Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 513 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About Iridium for YouTube

Iridium is back with v2.0! Enjoy a more personalized experience on YouTube with Iridium, an extension packed with multiple features that allows you to tailor the website look, feel, and behavior tuned to your taste, such as controlling nuisances by managing ads, blocking channels, and disabling shorts, automate tedious tasks by enforcing your preferred video quality and speed of choice, as well as disable autoplay, 60fps, and loudness normalization, enhance navigation by going to your subscriptions when clicking on the YouTube logo and automatically go to a default tab when clicking on a channel name, and so much more. The extension also offers an option to show on Youtube pages an Iridium button that opens the extension settings as a convenience so you don't have another extension button on your browser toolbar all the time. With Iridium you have access to a vast number of features, all of which are listed below. Features: - Show extension button on Youtube pages - Sync the extension settings - Export, import, and reset extension settings - Manage how you want your ads to be displayed on the home page, video page, and search page - Manage video ads, and whether or not to show for subscribed channels - Show full titles in video thumbnails - Control the extension and Youtube dark/light theme - Redirect to the subscriptions page when clicking on the Youtube logo - Disable channel trailer autoplay - Select a default channel tab to go to when clicking on a channel name - Disable shorts on home, subscription, search pages, and video page suggestions - Video focus allows the content around the player to dim - Show creator merch below the video details - Show linked video count next to the subscriber count in the video page - Control ambient mode setting - Super theater (player fills the entire screen in theater mode) - Control super theater scroll bar visibility - Reverse playlist option (show a button on video playlists that allows the current playlist to be reversed) - Set a default video quality - Set a default playback speed - Always visible (video stays always visible when scrolling the page) - Disable HFR/60fps (Youtube limits the max quality to 720p) - Disable video autoplay - Disable loudness normalization - Change the video volume during playback using the mouse wheel - Hold shift to change the video volume using the mouse wheel - Choose how much the volume should increase when using the mouse wheel - Disable video info cards - Disable video annotations - Hide the video endscreen and only show when the mouse cursor is hover - Show player tools below the player to control autoplay, toggle video focus, take a video screenshot, and open the video thumbnail - Show video monetization info below the player with ad count and sponsored indication - Add channels to the blacklist to stop showing its videos on the website (does not affect vertical short thumbnails due to YouTube limitation) - Show a Block Channel button on each video thumbnail context menu to quickly add that channel to the blacklist - Add channels individually, import, export, or delete them from the list If you found any issues please report them in the official repository for better support: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium Visit the release tracker for detailed changelogs: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/releases This extension does not collect, distribute, or process any form of data from the user, any data used is locally restricted to the extension functionality.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0−1.09
30 days0+0.0%+1−1.09
6 months0+0.0%+3−1.09
1 year0+0.0%+13−1.13

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Iridium for YouTube appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
youtube#82−75
video ads#98−77

Version history

11 versions recorded
2.1.219 Sep 2024
2.1.114 Sep 2024
2.1.015 Apr 2024
2.0.91 Apr 2024
2.0.822 Mar 2024
2.0.78 Mar 2024
2.0.62 Mar 2024
2.0.528 Feb 2024

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
5 Jan 2019
Size
1.1 MB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
gbjmgndncjkjfcnpfhgidhbgokofegbl

Permissions and risk

Minimal riskimpact 2, likelihood 0
Permissions
storage
Site access
*://www.youtube.com/*

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