cleartube

Hey Fazier community! 👋 I’m the maker behind ClearTube. Like most of you, I use YouTube constantly to learn new things, research dev topics, and keep up with tech. But lately, it feels like finding a genuinely good video has become an exhausting chore. The algorithm is incredibly good at optimizing for clicks and watch time—which means bright thumbnails, screaming titles, and high view counts often win, even if the video itself is 15 minutes of bloated filler or a tip stolen straight from a Reddit thread. You end up in this endless loop: open a video, skip around, realize it's fluff, close it, and repeat. The algorithm wins your attention, but you lose your evening. I built ClearTube to flip the script and give control back to the viewer. Instead of relying on raw view counts, it pulls real signals—like restored dislike ratios, view velocity, and true engagement metrics—to overlay an independent 1–10 Quality Score directly onto your YouTube interface before you click. A few things we focused heavily on during development: Zero Bloat & Speed: All the scoring happens locally in your browser in under a second using data already on the page. It won’t slow down your feed. Privacy-First: Your searches are yours. The extension runs 100% locally. It never tracks what you search, what you click, or what you watch. Value Transparency: There's a built-in impact dashboard that tracks exactly how many bad videos you dodged and how many hours of your life you reclaimed each month. The core extension is completely free to use (scores search results up to 100 times a day when signed in). For power users, there’s a $9 lifetime upgrade that unlocks unlimited scoring and brings Quality Scores to your entire homepage recommendation feed too. I’d love to know what you think! How do you usually dodge the clickbait trap on YouTube? If you give the extension a spin, I’d incredibly appreciate your feedback, feature requests, or thoughts on the scoring weights. Thanks for the support!