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Metric	Turn Off the Lights	'Improve YouTube!' 🎧 (for YouTube & Videos)
User count	1,000,000	400,000
Average rating	4.60	4.49
Rating count	33,537	7,140
Last updated	2026-02-24	2026-07-06
Size	8.40 MB	0.81 MB
Version	4.6.6	4.2081

Short description	Enhance your video watching with Turn Off the Lights extension. Dim distractions, enjoy dark mode, and protect your eyes on YouTube and beyond.	Supercharge YouTube with 175+ unique features. Customize video playback, filter content, themes, and layout for a smarter, tidier YouTube experience.
Full summary	Turn Off the Lights is a popular and trusted browser extension designed to transform your online video experience into a cinematic event. By dimming everything except your video, it helps you focus on the content without distractions. Compatible with YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and more, it offers features like Auto HD, Picture-in-Picture mode, customizable dark layers, eye protection modes, and various video player enhancements. The extension supports multiple languages, customizable shortcut keys, and integrates smoothly with popular ad blockers. Whether you're a video lover, dark mode enthusiast, or concerned about eye strain, Turn Off the Lights provides a versatile, easy-to-use tool that guarantees enhanced viewing comfort and atmosphere.	Improve YouTube! 🎧 is a powerful, open-source Chrome extension offering over 175 unique features to enhance your YouTube and video playback experience. Customize your video player, apply content filters, tweak layouts, and select themes to suit your viewing preferences without frequent page reloads. Enjoy features like auto-pause tabs, picture-in-picture mode, volume mixers, playlist controls, and much more. This lightweight and privacy-focused tool supports embedded videos from multiple platforms, including mobile YouTube, Netflix, Twitch, and Vimeo. Trusted and recommended by major platforms such as Firefox, Improve YouTube! has earned praise for meaningful enhancements to YouTube browsing. It offers extensive video playback controls, distraction-free viewing modes, advanced filtering by categories or channels, customizable hotkeys, and dark mode scheduling. Continuously updated since 2012 and backed by a committed community, it guarantees a refined and efficient video experience, free from intrusive ads and distractions.