youcog (beta)

youcog (beta)

Allow youtube videos to open in an incognito window with one click

  • youcog (beta)
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What is youcog (beta)?
youcog (beta) is a Chrome extension that adds a small icon to YouTube video thumbnails. With one click, it opens the video in a new incognito window, helping you avoid related videos and maintain privacy while browsing YouTube.
Merlin
Stats
By: Hacksore
Users: 7 ▲ 1
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.0.4 (Last updated: 2021-01-05)
Creation date: 2020-12-31
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
Size: 13.39K
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Summary

When you are on youtube.com a small icon is placed into the bottom left of a video thumbnail. When clicking on that icon it will open the video in a new incognito window to help prevent youtube from showing you related videos if it was a one time interest.

User reviews
It works great. I wish it was also available in firefox.
by Danusty I Danusty I, 2024-06-01

It functions as advertised. And it's open source which is cool.
by bert bones bert bones, 2021-01-02
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Safety
Risk impact

youcog (beta) is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

youcog (beta) has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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