CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout

Choose your own YouTube layout, and more!

What is CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout?

CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout is a Chrome extension that reinvents your YouTube experience by giving you the power to choose layouts from YouTube's past from 2008 to 2021. Apart from layout selection, the extension also offers advanced video controls like autoplay toggle, video player size selection, and improved search functionality. Additionally, it offers options to hide the 'Shorts' button on the sidebar for a distraction-free viewing experience.

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By: lightbeam

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 3.89 (154) ▲ 6 new ratings

Version: 1.2.7.2 (Last updated: 2024-02-02)

Creation date: 2023-08-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Size: 847.87K

Email: li*****@proton.me

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 7422 ▲ 62

Other rankings

#60 in Just for Fun ▲ 1 #2 in layout keyword 22 #33 in choose keyword 2 ▼ 2 #69 in youtube keyword 88 ▲ 36 #244 in details keyword 32 ▲

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CustomTube - Restore the Old YouTube Layout (v1.2.7.2)

4.46 (69) 2,311+

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Summary

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What if you could just choose your YouTube layout? Well, now you can! CustomTube lets you choose between recreations of any YouTube layout from 2008-2021, all with a single click!

Outside of the layout selector, CustomTube has even more options, including: -Ability to loop videos by default (with an option to exclude playlist videos) -Choose the size of the video player -Make search better by hiding some irrelevant results -Hide the "Shorts" button on the sidebar -And more, with even more options planned for future updates!

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Brings back old YouTube layout
Customization options
Brings back dislikes and removes shorts

Cons

Lagging grid
Icons are too small
Layouts are buggy
Update pop-ups

Most mentioned

Fix the layouts
Great extension but needs update
Doesn't work properly

Recent reviews

Well with the swap around nonsense layout youtube is pushing now, sadly this extension isn't working (yet?). I have found a way to get it back to how it "originally" was trough uBlock thanks to Chaski1212 (guess I should share that method while I'm at it *). * In uBlock Origin » My Filters add the following lines and apply changes: ! Youtube New UI Fix youtube.com###related #thumbnail.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(margin-right: 8px!important;height: 94px!important;width: 168px!important;min-width: 168px!important;) youtube.com###related #avatar-link.ytd-rich-grid-media, #related #attached-survey.ytd-rich-grid-media, #related .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer .button-container.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer:style(display:none!important;) youtube.com###related #dismissible.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(display:flex;flex-direction:row!important;) youtube.com###related #details.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(width: 100%!important;min-width: 0!important;) youtube.com###related #contents ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(margin:0!important;margin-top:8px!important;) youtube.com###related ytd-rich-grid-row #contents.ytd-rich-grid-row,#related h3.ytd-rich-grid-media,#related ytd-rich-section-renderer #content,#related #rich-shelf-header.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer:style(margin:0!important;) youtube.com###related ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-grid-row,#content.ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(width:100%!important;) youtube.com###related #video-title.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(font-size:1.4rem!important;) youtube.com###related .ytd-channel-name a,#related #metadata-line.ytd-video-meta-block span:style(font-size:12px!important;) youtube.com###related ytd-rich-grid-renderer #contents:style(padding-top:0px!important;) youtube.com###related .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer:style(width:130px!important;min-width: 130px!important;) youtube.com###related #contents.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer:style(display: flex !important;flex-direction: row !important;gap: 8px !important;flex-wrap: nowrap!important;max-width: 400px!important;overflow-x: scroll!important;overflow-y: hidden!important) youtube.com###related .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer .yt-core-image:style(object-fit: cover!important;) youtube.com###related ytd-rich-section-renderer #contents:style(margin-left:0!important) youtube.com###related #contents ytd-rich-section-renderer ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(margin-top:0px!important;) youtube.com###related .ytd-rich-shelf-renderer ytd-rich-item-renderer.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer[hidden=""]:style(display:block!important;) youtube.com###related #dismissible.ytd-rich-shelf-renderer:style(margin:0!important; border-color: transparent!important) youtube.com###title yt-formatted-string.ytd-watch-metadata:style(font-size:20px!important; font-weight: 700!important; line-height:28px!important) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.small_avatars_for_comments, false) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_comments_panel_button, false) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_rounded_thumbnails, false) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_watch_rounded_player_large, false) youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_max_player_width, 1280)