Releases: insin/control-panel-for-youtube
v1.11.2
Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.
Changes
- Added an option to hide Premium upsells, e.g. Download menu item, enhanced bitrate quality item - only enable this if you don't have Premium!
- Added an option to hide the suggested actions overlay on Shorts (e.g. searches & comments)
- Added an option to stop Shorts looping
- Added an option to always display the progress bar in Shorts
- Changed the hidden full size theater mode header to display instantly if it gets focused (e.g. press / to search)
- Changed the Hide Share/Thanks/Clip option to hide Share buttons and menu items everywhere
- Hides the Share button on Shorts
- When hiding Share menu items, if they had a separator it now gets up to the first visible menu item instead
- Changed the position of the desktop "Hide channel" menu item to below the native Hide/Not interested menu items, above Report
- Fixed the desktop Take snapshot video context menu not working in Shorts
- Fixed hiding more "Open App" menu items on mobile
- Fixed the following features not working in all YouTube display languages:
- Hiding Members only playlists in a channel's Home tab on mobile
- Hiding the Next button in the video player on mobile
- Hiding Shorts navigation items
- Hiding Open App menu items on mobile
Availability
This version is available for the following browsers:
Screenshots
Shorts options

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v1.10.0
Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.
Changes
- Added support for all YouTube display languages to the Always use original audio feature on desktop
- Added a Minimum shorts per row option (up to 12) on desktop
- Home only has up to 9 Shorts available to show per shelf
Screenshots
New Shorts option
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v1.9.1
Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.
Changes
- Added a new option to hide metadata on Shorts until you hover on desktop
- Added a French translation by @maxchrr
- Added a short delay to sliding out the hidden header in full-size theater mode on desktop, so it doesn't trigger when you're just moving your mouse between the browser chrome and YouTube
- Moved Shorts options to their own section - shorts are hidden and redirected by default, so you need to disable these options to use the new hide metadata option
Screenshots
New Shorts option
v1.8.2 - Control Panel for Control Panel for YouTube (it adds the missing options)
Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.
Changes
- Added the missing options for the Take snapshot video menu item:
- Toggle display of the menu item
- Snapshot format: JPEG (default) or PNG
- JPEG snapshot quality: Full, High (default), Medium or Low
- Added an option to hide channel banner images, to reduce the amount of space the channel header takes up
- Fixed Automatically pausing channel trailers preventing the next attempt to manually play the trailer if you change any options while on a channel's Featured tab
Screenshots
New Take snapshot options
v1.8.1
Visit the Control Panel for YouTube website for installation links, more information about the extension, and FAQs. Follow @soitis.dev on Bluesky for updates.
Changes
- Fixed accidentally hiding some playlists outside of Search and Related videos on desktop
- Fixed hiding a new ad variant under the comment entry point on mobile
- Fixed hiding multiple video types in Related videos on mobile
- Fixed missing translations for Hide Members only and Hide Playlists in the options page
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v1.8.0
Changes
- Added sub-options to Full size theater mode to hide the header and scrollbar, allowing theater mode videos to use the full window
- Hiding the header is enabled by default - hover near the top of the screen to make it reappear
- Hiding the scrollbar is not enabled by default, as some operating systems do this automatically
- Added a Take snapshot menu item to the video context menu
- Added an option to hide Members only videos
- Added an option to hide Playlists in Home, Search, Related etc
- Changed hiding of videos hidden using YouTube's built-in Hide/Not interested/Don't recommend channel functionality - you can now cancel hiding by clicking the 5 second timer
- Fixed hiding Mixes in endscreen videowalls
- Fixed hiding videos from your hidden channels in endscreen videowalls
- Fixed hiding the Looking for something different? prompt in Home on mobile
- Fixed some Movies & TV videos not being hidden
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v1.7.2
v1.7.1
v1.7.0
Changes
- Added an option to always use original audio for videos with multiple language tracks
- Only available on desktop as the audio track can't be changed on mobile
- Fixed hiding streamed videos on desktop
- Fixed multiple features when using Simplified Chinese by adding missing translations
- Fixed Mixes not being hidden properly on desktop
- Fixed hiding Shorts chips
- Japanese translation improved by @tohu-sand
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v1.6.0
Changes
- Added an option to automatically pause channel trailer videos on desktop (default: enabled)
- Added Chinese translation for the options page, by @movcoa
- Added hiding new groups of 3 Shorts which now appear inline in the Home feed on desktop
- Changed the Hide video endscreen content option to also hide previous/next buttons
- Changed the Hide video end cards option to also hide end cards in embedded videos
- Fixed removing pink gradient from progress bars (again)
- Fixed hiding the info box under a video's channel name on desktop
- Fixed detection of Home and Subscriptions videos on desktop having their progress updated, or being replaced by another video
- Removed the separate option for hiding endscreen content in embedded videos - the Hide video endscreen content option now controls this everywhere