04 December 2025

I’ve always used YouTube’s volume slider between 1% and 20%. It gets loud so quickly that there is very little difference between 50% and 100%. That’s because sound intensity increases with power, but our ears perceive it logarithmically. If you map the slider linearly, like YouTube does, it feels wrong.

Fortunately, we can fix that with a small userscript. (If you don’t have an extension for Userscripts, I recommend Violentmonkey for Firefox and Tampermonkey for Chrome) You can install this userscript to fix both YouTube and YouTube Music.

In Chrome, you need to give permission to Tampermonkey to run userscripts.