YouTube Dark Theme

A light, dark theme for YouTube with easy toggle on and off and scheduling support. This theme is based on the default YouTube theme

What is YouTube Dark Theme?

YouTube Dark Theme is an Edge add-on by Bermet. This add-on has 10,457 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.50, and is most similar to Review Bookmarks and Web PKI. The latest version, 0.4.1, was updated 6 months ago.

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By: Bermet

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Users: 10,457 ▲ 96

Rating: 4.50 (8)

Version: 0.4.1 (Last updated: 2022-12-26)

Creation date: 2022-01-11

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
cookies
alarms
idle

Host permissions:

*://*.youtube.com/*

Size: 85.88K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Other platforms

YouTube Dark Theme (v0.4.1)

210 82,630

Not available on Firefox

ChromeStats Rank

# 1104

Other rankings

#668 in Accessibility ▼ 4

#8 in dark theme keyword

#8 in night theme keyword ▲ 1

#12 in dark keyword ▼ 1

#16 in shift keyword

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Summary

"Dark Theme for YouTube" extension converts YouTube theme to a highly customizable dark charcoal/blue theme. This extension is built on top of the default YouTube theme (native dark theme) so it is very light-weighted compare to using themes injected by Stylish or Stylus extensions.

Features:
Turn on and off from the action button to switch between light and dark themes
Accepts scheduling to turn on only on the specified period
Customize default color scheme
Inject custom CSS to alter the default theme (change font-size or font-family for instance)

How does this extension work?
This extension alters a cookie globally to turn the dark theme on and off. It also injects a lite script to the YouTube pages to alter the color scheme of the root element. In oppose to the other similar extensions, there is no resetting of the default theme or inverting the white theme with an inversion filter. Both of these methods are computationally inefficient. Instead, this extension asks YouTube to turn the native dark theme and only alter the global CSS variables to alter the colors.
Note that this method only works if the product supports native coloring. Some Google products do not yet support this feature.

Privacy Policy: 
This extension does not send or receive any data to any server whatsoever.

User reviews

Works exactly as described. My eyes can rest when watching YT at night.

by alvin, 2023-02-25

Love it

by Danny, 2021-09-15

Именно то, что искал

by Евгений, 2020-11-22

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Safety

Risk impact

YouTube Dark Theme requires some risky permissions and may not be safe to use. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.

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Risk likelihood

YouTube Dark Theme is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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