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Ambient light for YouTube™

Immerse yourself in YouTube™ videos with ambient light!

Users10KCurrent public install base

Rating4.8Store average score

Reviews180Public review volume

Manifest versionV3Extension platform version

7-day growth0Net users gained this week

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Version2.38.17

ManifestV3

Size973KiB

Languages1English

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Overview

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This extension will surround YouTube™ videos with ambient light inside your browser. No need for extra hardware like lightstrips or smart lights like ambilight, it's all in your browser!

Tip:

Are you using a widescreen or portrait monitor? Enable both the "Remove black bars" and "Fill video to screen" features to automatically fill your monitor with any video that has black bars.

Features:

1. Ambient light

- Blur

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Store average score4.8Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text

Synced text average4.8Average computed only from synced review bodies below

Reviews with text122Synced review bodies

Total ratings / reviews180Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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Egya Besa2025年5月8日

good, 5 stars from Ghana, west africa. nice chromium extension

Zohaib2025年5月1日

Love it !

Briskularity2025年4月28日

Increible, justo lo que estaba buscando al conseguir una pantalla ultrawide, a disfrutar videos sin barras negras!!!!

brian sabil2025年4月25日

esta perfecto, pero estaria mejor poder mejorar la iluminacion, tamaño y brillo

Andrew Negativo2025年4月20日

Nice

Zoutold2025年3月21日

muy buena extencion, al fin tengo mi ambient light en Theater, que tengan un bonito dia.

Divyam Bindal2025年2月26日

I really really really loved this extention, it is so lightweight and gets the work doen without a hickup, and if you tweak it enough, your whole screen virtually gets extended like a big video while the original video being the same. Totally recomended.

vlad vlad programmer2025年2月25日

С адаптивной подсветкой очень хорошо сочетается

오누르에라이2025年2月24日

Brings Back the YouTube Ambient Mode – Amazing Extension! I love this extension! For some reason, YouTube removed the ambient lighting feature from my account, but this extension brings it back perfectly. It makes the viewing experience so much better, especially when watching videos in windowed or cinema mode. If you're using an ultrawide monitor, it even adds ambient light on the sides in fullscreen where black bars would normally be, making it feel much more immersive! Plus, it works seamlessly with other YouTube extensions like Enhancer for YouTube, making them even better together. Thank you for creating this awesome extension!

AI product read

Adds ambient light effects around YouTube videos directly in the browser, simulating TV ambient lighting (like Philips Ambilight) without external hardware

Users want immersive ambient lighting effects around YouTube videos but lack dedicated hardware (LED strips, smart lights, or Ambilight TVs). This extension replicates that effect entirely in the browser.

User installs extension, navigates to YouTube, and the extension automatically applies ambient light effects around the video player. Settings are configurable via the extension popup (options.html). Effects apply on any YouTube video page including embeds.

Target users: YouTube viewers seeking immersive video experience / Users with widescreen or ultrawide monitors / Fans of ambient lighting effects without hardware investment

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No paid features detected

The extension is open source (GitHub: WesselKroos/chrome-youtube-ambilight). No payment platforms, subscription APIs, license checks, or upgrade prompts are detected. All features listed in the store description are available without gating. The heuristic scan found 'open source' as a negative keyword for paid features.

Confidence: 95
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Source: AI / High
Login required: No
Reason: The extension operates entirely locally on YouTube pages via content scripts. It only requests the 'storage' permission for saving user preferences. No login UI, authentication endpoints, or account-related code paths are indicated in the manifest or store description. The extension modifies YouTube's DOM directly without needing any user account.

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Wezelkrozum

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