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OldYTPlayer | YouTube Old Player UI Pre-2025 & Minimal Tweaks

Removes YouTube’s new “Delhi” player experiment flags to restore the old video player UI. In english, this userscript brings back the Youtube UI we all know and love. Credits go to Jonny Buchanan at the "Control Panel for Youtube" extension/project. This was developed due to many users like myself wanting a free method to get rid of the new video player change Youtube has forced on us. This userscript also comes with Return Youtube Dislike and many tweaks, all of which are toggleable.

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作者
DudeAint
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版本
0.1
创建于
2025-10-22
更新于
2025-10-22
大小
70.5 KB
许可证
MIT
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OldYTPlayer | YouTube Old Player UI Pre-2025 & Minimal Tweaks


YouTube Original Look
Minimal Tweaks
Lightweight
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Description


This userscript restores the old YouTube video player UI by removing the "Delhi" experiment flags and brings back the familiar interface. It also provides a variety of toggleable tweaks for a cleaner, minimal UI experience.


Inspired by
Control Panel for YouTube
by Jonny Buchanan, this script is a free, lightweight solution for users who prefer the classic player layout.




Main Features


  • ✓

    Revert Old Youtube Player: Restores the pre-2025 player UI and hides the new fullscreen interface. (May require a page refresh)

  • ✓

    Remove AI Summary: Hides AI-generated video summary blocks and the "Ask AI" button.

  • ✓

    Enable Dislikes: Shows community dislike counts via Return YouTube Dislike.



    • Setting Blocks/Features

    Annoyances

    Hide minor nuisances in the player.

    • Remove Hide Button: Hides the endscreen "Hide" button overlay.
    • Remove Pink Gradient: Reverts the pink progress bar to the original YouTube color.
    • Hide Sponsored Ads: Hides ad panels, sponsored banners, paid content overlays, merch, offers, channel watermarks, and promoted sections.
    • Hide Shorts: Hides YouTube Shorts from home, search, side menu, related, and more.
    • Hide Share/Thanks/Clip Buttons: Hides Share, Thanks, and Clip buttons on video pages and menus.

    Tweaks

    Change the look and layout of YouTube.

    • Search Thumbnails Size: Adjusts thumbnail and avatar sizes on search pages (Small, Medium, Large).
    • Minimum Grid Items Per Row: Forces a minimum number of videos per row on Home and Subscriptions pages (Auto, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2).



    Default Settings

    By default, only Revert Old Youtube Player is enabled.




    Supported Devices & Browsers

    • PC: Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge with Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, or Scriptcat.
    • MacOS: Chrome, FireFox, Opera with Tampermonkey - Safari with Stay for Safari.
    • iOS: Safari with Stay for Safari.

    Note: This script may stop working once YouTube permanently removes the old player UI. It is still functional as of October 2025.




    Installation

    1. Install a userscript manager (Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey, Scriptcat, etc.).


    2. Click here to install OldYTPlayer.




    Menu & Where To Find It


    The OldYTPlayer menu is built gracefully into the bottom of the YouTube settings UI so it doesn’t conflict with anything. Open YouTube’s player settings (gear icon), then scroll to the bottom panel to find the script controls.



    OldYTPlayer menu screenshot 1
    Menu panel with toggles


    OldYTPlayer menu screenshot 2
    Annoyances section, located at bottom of OYTP settings.



    Extra note on features: both Hide Sponsored Ads and Hide Share/Clips/Thanks toggles must be on to hide the "Join" button.



    Credits


    Original idea and detection of the “Delhi” experiment by
    Control Panel for YouTube
    (Jonny Buchanan).

    Developed and maintained by DudeAint.




    License

    This script is released under the MIT License.





    Built and maintained by DudeAint, but you are free to include this code in your projects.