Getting to see the new YouTube player involves editing one of the cookies the company stores in your computer when you visit the site. This how-to guide gives you the instructions to edit this particular cookie in Chrome and Firefox. As you can see from the screenshot, the new video player is very similar to the old player, controls haven’t change, but they have been redesigned and you’ll no longer the black background behind the controls, and now the entire video is visible.

Enable transparent YouTube player

Chrome

Refresh the page and now you should be seeing the new YouTube player with transparent background.

Firefox

Refresh the page and now you should be seeing the new YouTube player with transparent background.

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