CleanTube v1.0.5 Public Beta

[EmirTheBest7]

CleanTube v1.0.5

A cleaner YouTube. Faster, smarter, and more reliable than ever.

This release brings meaningful improvements to performance, reliability, and the overall experience — refining what CleanTube does best while laying the groundwork for what's coming next.

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What's New

Performance

• Replaced the global polling interval with a MutationObserver-based engine — the extension now reacts to ad injections instead of constantly scanning the page, significantly reducing CPU usage during normal playback
• PiP button injection no longer runs on a recurring timer; it now uses a self-stopping observer that tears itself down the moment the button is placed
• MutationObserver scope narrowed to the header container, preventing unnecessary processing of full-page DOM mutations

Reliability

• Removed the hardcoded pixel-coordinate dialog selector that broke across different viewport sizes and YouTube layout variants
• Expanded ad element selectors to cover in-feed promotions, masthead ads, Shorts promotional content, and sidebar banners
• Added yt-navigate-finish listeners across all modules so ad blocking and UI enhancements survive YouTube's SPA navigation correctly

Architecture

• Added a background service worker for proper MV3 message routing and persistent stat tracking
• Settings changes now propagate to all open YouTube tabs simultaneously — no reload required
• Content script now runs at document_start for earlier ad interception

Fixes

• Removed the setYouTubeCookie algorithm which was no longer effective and caused unintended side effects
• Removed broken reference to ytdl-module.js which caused a silent script load failure
• Ad block toggle in the popup now correctly reflects and controls the live state of the content script

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Known Limitations

• YouTube periodically updates its DOM structure; if a selector becomes stale, please open an issue with your YouTube locale and browser version
• Firefox support is not yet official — MV3 compatibility work is planned for a future release

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Installation

Download the .zip, extract it, then load via chrome://extensions → Developer Mode → Load Unpacked.

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Thank you to everyone who reported issues and shared feedback. Every report makes CleanTube better.

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