Fix Pink YouTube
A browser add-on to make YouTube red again
🦊 Firefox🌐 ChromeGitHub

What does it do?

This extension restores YouTube's classic red color scheme by changing:

  • Progress bar in the main video player
  • Progress bar in video thumbnails
  • Other UI elements to match YouTube's pre-2023 red theme

Player Progress Bar

Fixed player progress bar showing red color

Thumbnail Progress Bar

Fixed thumbnail progress bar showing red color

Color Reference

To ensure authenticity, we use colors from a May 7, 2023 snapshot from archive.org

--yt-brand-youtube-red: #f00; --yt-brand-medium-red: #c00; --yt-brand-light-red: #ff4e45; --yt-spec-brand-button-background: #c00; --yt-spec-brand-button-background-hover: #990412;

Development

🛠 Build locally

  1. Clone the repository
  2. Run npm install to install dependencies
  3. Run npm run build

🏃 Run the extension

  1. Run npm run watch to watch for changes
  2. Run npm install --global web-ext (first time only)
  3. Run web-ext run -t chromium in another terminal
View on GitHub for full documentation