How to enable the hidden dark theme decoration YouTube
Web Services / / December 24, 2019
Google is constantly working on its programs and services, adding to them all the new features and visual enhancements. As a rule, these innovations first run-on a narrow range of users and only after extensive testing become available to the general public.
Today, one of the attentive user found that YouTube the opportunity to include a hidden dark theme. This news he immediately shared on Twitter.
holy crap official dark mode youtube is a thing pic.twitter.com/QHsyo9Anla
- Owen ⚡️ (@ow) April 14, 2017
For its activation is necessary to perform the following actions in Chrome:
1. Go to the YouTube service page.
2. Press Ctrl + Shift + I (Windows) or Option + Cmd + I (Mac).
3. Before you open the panel with tools for developers. Click the Console tab.
4. Insert the console the following text:
document.cookie = "PREF = f6 = 4; path = /; domain = .youtube.com";
5. Click on the "Enter" key, close the toolbar for developers and reload the page. You'll notice that the page has got a slightly different look. But it remained still light. we'll fix that right now.
6. Click in the upper right corner of the page on your avatar. In the menu, enable "Night mode". Immediately after this dark design theme will appear.
The dark theme is particularly useful for those users who like to stay up the night before a computer screen, looking through interesting videos. I am sure that our readers will find many such people.
If you get tired of this topic, it is always possible to return everything as it was. Click for this on the icon with the little man in the lower right corner, you will agree with the changes, and service will again be bright.