Adblock Plus has released a new tool that lets you customize YouTube

Nov 22, 2013 10:10 GMT  ·  By
Here's how the YouTube page looks with all Adblock Plus features enabled
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   Here's how the YouTube page looks with all Adblock Plus features enabled

Adblock Plus has decided to lend a helping hand to all YouTube users that absolutely hate the new comment section of the site with a couple of customizing features that will rid you of anything that’s annoying on the site.

Similar features have already been available for Facebook and Twitter users, but now YouTube is getting the same treatment, the company announced.

By entering the YouTube Customizer page, Adblock Plus gives you the necessary tools to remove 10 "annoyances" on the popular video streaming service.

Here’s what you can block with the help of the tool – comments, suggested videos, featured videos in the Endscreen, recommended videos in the Endscreen, sharing tab in the description, in-video annotations, related, featured or popular channels on channel pages and the recommended channels on the homepage.

Basically, it helps you strip down the entire YouTube page, leaving only the video you want to see and a little bit of information about it, as you can see in the top picture.

There are four options available on the Adblock Plus site. One will block all of the above-mentioned annoyances, another will block the comments section, one the suggestions and another the sharing tab in the description and in-video annotations.

After you choose one of them, you have to click the "Add" button in the editing page of Adblock. You will obviously also need to have the browser addon.

A few weeks ago, Google introduced a complete redesign on the YouTube site, making it obligatory to have a Google+ account if you wanted to comment on any type of video.

While this may have been a good idea from some points of view, such as reducing spamming and ranking higher the useful comments, it also angered a lot of people. A petition has been launched to get Google to go back on the modifications, and although it has some 200,000 signatures, there’s no happy end in sight for users.

The main gripe they have with the service now is the fact that Google pushes for integrating Google+ with YouTube, and thus basically to add some more users to its rather-empty social network.

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