Free Chrome extension
Take back
your feed
It marks the clickbait and names the trick, hides what you never asked for, and tells you when the algorithm is the one choosing.
- Free
- No account
- Makes no network requests
- Desktop Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc
What it does
Eight switches, all yours
Reads the title
Names the trick
“Withholds the payoff.” “Promises a hidden truth.” Not a verdict on the video — a fact about the words.
Reads the page
Counts the bait
29 of 98 titles here are bait-styled. Nobody has shown you that number about your own feed before.
Hides
Shorts, feed, sidebar
Plus comments and end screens. Each its own switch, all off until you turn them on.
Hides
Channels you never finish
And suggests which ones, from your own history. Every other blocker makes you remember the names.
Hides
Thumbnail colour
Greyscale until you hover. The shocked face is the visual half of a clickbait title.
Notices
Rabbit holes
Not “you’ve watched a while” — it says something when four videos in a row were its idea, not yours.
Notices
Where the time went
A daily budget: time on what you searched for, time the feed chose instead, and Shorts.
Replaces
The wall at the end
One video at a time. A choice when a video finishes, instead of a grid of recommendations.
The catch
There isn’t one
No servers, no requests
The scoring runs on your machine — the same code the paid report uses. No analytics, no tracking, nothing but youtube.com.
Nothing on before you say so
Two features remember anything at all, and neither switches on until it has shown you what it keeps. One button erases both.
It never stops you
No closed tabs, no blocked videos, no locked screens. Every prompt is a sentence with a Dismiss on it.
Read the privacy policy, or read the source.
Honestly
What it can’t do
It reads the title, not the video. A rigorous documentary with a punchy title scores like a farmed one. That is why it names the technique instead of calling anything bad.
It reads English. A feed in another language scores low because we couldn’t read the bait, not because there wasn’t any.
And the report
The extension is the day. The report is the X-ray.
The report reads 90 days and names the channels you open and never finish. The extension turns that into blocks you can act on, and shows your retrain checklist on YouTube where the buttons are. You don’t need one for the other.