YouTube Dark Theme YouTube Dark Theme

Accessibility
Version: 0.4.1
Last Update: 2022-12-26

Overview

YouTube Dark Theme is a Chrome extension developed by MeryDev. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of YouTube Dark Theme is 0.4.1, updated on 2022-12-26.
80,000+ users have installed this extension. 210 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

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

"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.

Bug Report:
Please either use the commenting section of the FAQs page or the GitHub page for bug reporting.

Change Log:
0.2.0
Use the built-in dark theme (Material Design only)

Rating

210 ratings

Total Installs

80,000+

Information

Last Update

2022-12-26

Current Version

0.4.1

Size

86.58KiB

Author

MeryDev

Website

None

Category

Accessibility

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avatar Patrick Kuczynski
2022-04-04

Works so well I forget that it isn't just the default function of the browser. Saves my eyes from additional strain. Highly recommend.

avatar XRYS
2022-03-30

the best

avatar Ali Hussain
2022-03-06

Why is it not working?

avatar Jakub Zieliński
2022-03-05

Was working flawlessly since I installed it, until today. Now it just doesn't work at all no matter what I do. Perhaps it got broken by a youtube update?

avatar SeaBreeze
2022-03-05

doesn't even work