I built a Chrome extension that mutes YouTube ads automatically — and I need contributors.

I'm a 19-year-old AI student studying in China. Like most students, I spend a lot of time on YouTube — lectures, tutorials, background music while I study. And like everyone, I got tired of YouTube ads blasting at full volume right in the middle of a focused session. So I built Quietly . What it does Quietly is a Chrome extension that automatically detects when a YouTube ad is playing and mutes it in real time — then restores your audio the moment the ad ends. No clicking. No manual muting. It just works silently in the background. Automatically mutes YouTube ads Restores audio when the ad ends Works across multiple YouTube tabs simultaneously Persists ON/OFF state across browser sessions Runs entirely client-side — no servers, no data collection How it works under the hood The extension uses DOM monitoring to detect ad state. Every 500ms, content.js checks for the presence of ad-specific elements in the YouTube player. When an ad is detected, it mutes the tab. When the ad clears, audi