Unveiling the Best Chrome Extension for a Seamless Video Experience: The Chrome Video Capture Extension

This has been amazing for me but recently it has stopped working. The button disappeared, the hotkey don't work. This continues to be the issue even after i got the 1 day free trial. I'll be more than happy to pay the $12 lifetime subscription once it works. It seems that the problem coincidence with the freemium model transition, roughly a month ago. p/s - the incredible annoyance I have with watching youtube now is a testimonial to what a great extension this has been. 5-stars what it has done for me and hope it will continue to do for me.

Monetization features have begun to creep in and thus enshittification is in full steam, including paid promotion overlays and locking previously free features behind a paywall - the extension also just started to require permissions for notifications, which are DEFINITELY NOT REQUIRED for the core functionality. Uninstalling right now.

I'll eat a bag of big ones before I pay for a glorified CSS edit Word to the wise, there are free and less bloated solutions that don't paywall things like scrolling lol Edit: I appreciate the response, but your payment model is really silly. I'm hugely pro-donationware and not at all upset about the price. But the blunt truth is that you turned some of the free features into paid features requiring a login lol There are other free options that are just as reliable, sorry. You're right that one star was unfair, I have adjusted it to three as I did use it for months as a free user.

Wants money for it to work. Don't pay. It encourages grifters.

I like to use this extension occasionally and not all the time. For some reason, it now seems to be auto full-screening every video I click on regardless of whether or not I want that. I don't see any obvious setting to stop this from happening. If there even is one, it shouldn't be as hidden as it is. If there isn't one, thats even worse. Regardless, there are other apps that give the same functionality without the boneheaded design. Simply switching to one of those

Works great so far.

The button doesn’t always appear, and you constantly have to reload the page just to get it to show up. It’s beyond annoying. What’s even worse is that the auto-fullscreen feature no longer works. It used to function perfectly, but now it’s locked behind a paywall. Charging for what was once a basic feature is absolutely unreasonable. If the extension worked as intended, I’m sure many users, including myself, would have been happy to donate. But forcing an annual subscription just to restore basic functionality is unacceptable. --- Update: I uninstalled this extension from Chrome and replaced it with the "YouTube Fullscreen Mode" script from GreasyFork. It works way better, gets fast updates, and is completely open-source and free.

was a very solid extension before they added premium, not only did they put auto fullscreen behind a paywall, they made the app much less reliable (wont even load sometimes). The only reason I was using this in the first place was because tampermonkey couldnt auto sync scripts across devices meaning id have to manually install the script (that essentially does what this extension does for free) on every device. Now that this is the less convenient option of the two, looks like im going to be switching back.

it's pretty useful but does have alot of issues, like having to adjust permissions constantly and reloading youtube to get it to work, rating it 2 stars because when it does work it's very usefull.

Works; fine freemium model for my needs - sign up is misleading, but it's totally optional and not required for the extension to function... unless you want the premium features. I would suggest the developer move to a donation based approach and open a buymeacoffee or kofi allowing folk to buy a lifetime model rather than try and make a subscription, especially with how anti-subscription folk are becoming nowadays. I understand that they are in an economic difficulty at the moment, but if you drive away everyone then you won't even have a userbase to get funding from.

Good addon, but the latest version just dropped the auto toggle option. Need a downgrade to retrieve this feature.

Recent update moved functions behind a paywall. I understand development takes times, but put new features behind a paywall not already existing ones. Specifically auto fullscreen is now a premium feature.

Worked exactly as needed for a long time, but now opens an advertisement for the paid version each time I open chrome. Not worth keeping around :( edit: +1 star, glad the dev is working on it. I've moved to a macro on my kb that appends the "watch =?" URL with "watch_popup?=v" and am back to 0 extensions.

Does what it does without any big fuss, but if the popups will not stop I'll have to look for a different one

I personally liked this extension coz it was exactly what I need :) the only feature I miss in the new pricing model is the auto-toggle which I started to not use recently :) I also liked that the search bar appears when you hover on its location, I dont know if this is a new thing or already there :D yet I wonder if the new pricing model will save you from what you lost. I hope you get a better job and consider pricing also the price is not clarified before logging to the billing site

Genuinely enjoy using this extension, the display is a step up from theater mode and the new scrolling feature means one less button I have to press to like a video or read comments. For $5 a year (which you can cancel the auto-renew) aslong as it's updated with YouTube UI changes I will be happy!

You have to manually activate the windowed fullscreen functionality without a subscription.

This extension now loads React and a whole Firebase SDK with associated network calls to do what amounts to a tiny UI tweak. The developer is welcome to try and earn money for this tweak but it's not gonna work out. I'm staying on 4.2

Putting previously available features behind a paywall, this extension is now just spam. DON'T INSTALL

Have to say I did love it before but not anymore after the change to premium version. Specially since there is no information anywhere about prices, any information about privacy, gppr info, any guidance in withdrawing personal info etc specially now where the developer is a trader since the developer wants to sell the extension And then also that the developer has stated to google that the person is not a trader even that the person clearly are And I totally understand the reason for changing, but when everything then is disregarded the same time then nope so unfortunately going to file reports to google about those clear violations

I appreciate that the code is easy to read and even commented. There's a lot of questionable chrome extensions but this one doesn't do anything more than advertised.

Literally the only extension i have found that actually does this and works. Thank you

I use this all the time. Took one star since sometimes it doesn't load and I have to refresh the youtube video for it to pop up in the player.

Brilliant! Thanks

Thank you, does what it does!

Well it does exactly what it says. Now i can watch two youtube videos at the same time with the new edge splitscreen feature on my TV and only see the videos, no annoying text or whatever above and under the video. Thank you!

Does exactly as the name of the app.

BEST TOOL EVER, I wish they have an implementation for all kind of media players on chrome and not only youtube

Would be great if it could also support youtubekids.

The only thing missing is the ability to scroll down to comments/other videos in expanded mode, like original full screen by youtube