Youtube has a dark mode <3

almost 6 years ago from Igor Stumberger, Product Designer @ 3fs

Youtube Dark Mode Just discovered that one can enable dark mode on Youtube

I've tried it in Chrome, but it maybe works also in other browsers though. Here how you can try it out:

Go to Youtube
Open Console and enter: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=fPQ4jCL6EiE"
Refresh
You'll see dark mode option either in the "..." menu or when tapping on your profile picture

Seems like a cool feature for people spending a lot of time watching stuff up there. Also, the video is full width by default, which seems so natural to me since I always enable this either way.

Pretty neat right?

20 comments

Joel L, almost 6 years ago
@Igor A sidenote: the cookie should be: document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=fPQ4jCL6EiE" (markdown ate your underscore characters)
6 points
- Igor Stumberger, almost 6 years ago
  Dammit markdown! Totally missed that, thanks for pointing out :)
  0 points
  - Joel L, almost 6 years ago
    If you can edit the post, encose the code snippet in backticks, so it renders correctly :)
    2 points
- Tyler Finck, almost 6 years ago
  This works great, thanks!
  1 point
Cristian Moisei, almost 6 years ago
I still have the old design :(
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Henrique Nogueira, almost 6 years ago
tried here, but only got the white redesign. It gets dark when i turn full width, though.
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- Diego Lafuente, almost 6 years ago
  After that, go to your avatar and in the menu you can select the dark mode.
  2 points
oli ingram, almost 6 years ago
Good to hear, i've been using stylish for chrome for ages, it's a browser plugin which let's you add custom css for websites, so I have a dark mode for youtube and soundcloud, there's loads of premade css themes, including one to change your youtube progress bar to Nyan cat!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish-custom-themes-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en
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Diego Lafuente, almost 6 years ago
Looks like more an tablet version of Youtube than a regular website.
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Cihad Turhan, almost 6 years ago
Lol, I got "clean mode" instead of dark.
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- Diego Lafuente, almost 6 years ago
  Go to your user avatar and in the menu you will see the option for dark mode.
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Christopher James, almost 6 years ago
FYI: Enabling this made it impossible for me to upload anything to my channel. Resetting cookies remedied the issue.
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Jonas Goth, almost 6 years ago
For those who can't make it work properly, heres a chrome extension that does the same thing.
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Krisztian Hadi, almost 6 years ago
Whoa, epic! Thx!
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Adam Ferch, almost 6 years ago
So legit!
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Greg Warner, almost 6 years ago
And is it just me, or isn't the default full-width video view bigger as well? Makes for a lot nicer viewing experience.
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- Jacob J, almost 6 years ago
  It's definitely bigger. There's no spacing on the sides and I love it.
  0 points
Joe Blau, almost 6 years ago
Got it working in Chrome, but it doesn't seem to work in Safari. It looks really good when it's up and running.
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- Daniel Campagne, almost 6 years ago
  to activate it on safari type this on the console: document.cookie="PREF=f6=4;path=/;domain=.youtube.com";
  3 points
  - Joe Blau, almost 6 years ago
    THANK YOU!
    1 point

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