

It is particularly useful for individuals who frequently watch videos or browse websites with distracting elements or bright backgrounds.

Turn Off the Lights has a 4.76-star rating at the Chrome extension website with over 7458 reviews, and has been featured on Google Blog, Lifehacker, MacLife, CNET, and New York Times.

A keyboard shortcut gives users quick access to the program's services. The extension can also be set to dim the screen automatically, and there are a variety of YouTube-specific features as well to bring an object to the front. Users can adjust the opacity of the screen blocking and select a color other than black if desired. Clicking outside the video restores the rest of the screen. A gray lamp icon is displayed in the browser menu bar when a video is detected users click on the icon to make the screen surrounding the video fade. Turn Off the Lights is a browser extension that lets users dim everything on their screen except the Flash or HTML5 video they're watching, minimizing distractions and making for a more pleasant viewing experience for the internet users. There is also a Turn Off the Lights bookmarklet for other browsers. It is available as a plugin for Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Maxthon and Yandex Browser. Turn Off the Lights is a free browser extension developed by Stefan vd.
