Face Value | Clickbait Remover for YouTube
browser extension<br>Take YouTube at<br>face value.<br>Every title on YouTube is written to grab your attention, and every<br>thumbnail is engineered for clicks. Face Value rewrites titles from the<br>video’s actual transcript, replaces thumbnails<br>with a real frame from the video, and hides all Shorts by default. You<br>decide what deserves your attention.<br>Add to Chrome Add to Firefox Add to Edge
what they publish<br>what you see
SpaceX Ship 40 Prepares for Flight 13 Static Fire<br>What about it!?
Artemis 3 HLS Starship Based on Version 3<br>What about it!?
David Dobrik Stays at French Villa, Meets Multiple Women<br>David Dobrik
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (4K Remaster)<br>Rick Astley
Hot Dog Package Quantity Mismatch Explained<br>BlackLabelExpat
Why Income and Spending Matter More Than Investment Choices<br>The Iced Coffee Hour
SpaceX Is Getting Ready For Flight 13! NASA Reveals 15 Flights per Artemis Launch<br>What about it!?
Is the Artemis III HLS Starship Already Testing at Starbase?<br>What about it!?
Our first kiss<br>David Dobrik
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Video) (4K Remaster)<br>Rick Astley
Worst line in movie history<br>BlackLabelExpat
The Savings Expert: They’re Lying To You About Building Wealth - Do THIS Instead! | Humphrey Yang<br>The Iced Coffee Hour
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This is about our attention, not just bad-faith thumbnails.<br>The classic clickbait shock face, the red arrows, capital letters, and now<br>AI on top of all that. At this point, even honest creators present their<br>videos like this.<br>I built Face Value when I hit my own limit: I couldn’t even browse<br>podcasts anymore without having to do a deep dive on the video and the<br>creator just to see if it was worth my time. Platforms have been<br>encouraging this deceptive shock face style for years, and solutions like<br>DeArrow don’t cover enough content to be worthwhile.<br>Face Value brings back my ability to accurately judge which videos I'd<br>like to watch. It also makes the homepage a bit easier to look at in a way<br>- you don't notice how much the chaos makes it ugly until you've seen the<br>cleaned version. I hope you feel similarly if you use Face Value, and<br>please feel more than welcome to reach out about improvements or bugs.
Clean titles<br>Face Value's edge is in the way titles are formed - reading the actual video transcript gives the AI a very accurate picture of the content, rather than working with only the title.
Clean thumbnails<br>A thumbnail caching process preserves a crisp looking homepage while fully addressing the fundamental issue.
Hide Shorts<br>One toggle removes Shorts shelves, reels, and the sidebar button everywhere. Nobody asked for YouTube to become Instagram Reels or TikTok.
Channel exceptions<br>Trust a creator? Pause Face Value on their channel and see them exactly as they publish.
How it works<br>01 We read the transcript<br>When a video first appears in anyone’s feed, our server fetches its public transcript.
02 The title is rewritten<br>A language model rewrites the title to plainly state the contents of the video.
03 A real frame replaces the thumbnail<br>We pull a sharp, representative frame from the video stream itself and display that instead of the thumbnail.
Results are cached and shared. The first person to see a video pays a few<br>seconds of processing, everyone after gets it instantly. The extension never<br>blocks your browsing; cards fill in as answers arrive. Live streams and<br>search results are intentionally left untouched. See the source here
Free, and funded by donations.<br>The transcript API, thumbnail proxy data, LLM requests, as well as general<br>hosting cost me every month. To me, this is a small price to pay for winning<br>back the freedom to choose, but Face Value does not make money and donations<br>are much appreciated.<br>Consider donating