Is This Worth It? — YouTube Clickbait Checker

AI summary of any YouTube video in the side panel — key learnings, factuality, novelty, and a clickbait score, before you hit play.

**Stop wasting time on videos that don't deliver.** Worth my time? reads any YouTube video the moment you open it and gives you an honest, AI-generated verdict — right in Chrome's side panel — before you commit to watching. **What you get, instantly:** ✅ **Worth-It Score** — a single 0–100 score (higher = more worth watching) so you can decide at a glance. ✅ **Key Highlights, with timestamps** — the actual points the video makes, each with a clickable timestamp that jumps straight to that moment. ✅ **Plugs and Promotions** — a separate, honest list of every sponsor read, affiliate link, discount code, or "buy my course" pitch in the video, so you know what's actually being sold to you. ✅ **Adaptive signal scoring** — every video is auto-classified (Entertainment, Politics/News, Advice/How-To, Review/Product, Vlog/Personal, or General) and scored on signals that actually fit its genre: • Always scored: Factual, Title vs. Content, Realistic • Politics/News adds: Balance, Outrage Bait • Advice/How-To adds: Evidence-Backing, Actionability • Review/Product adds: Independence, Comparison Depth • Entertainment adds: Payoff, Pacing • Vlog/Personal adds: Authenticity, Relatability ✅ **You control what matters** — re-weight every signal in Settings to match your own priorities. Your weights decide both the score and which signals show first. ✅ **Bring your own AI** — choose from Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok (xAI), DeepSeek, Kimi, or Poe, and use your own API key. You're always in control of cost and which model does the analysis. ✅ **Optional YouTube Data API support** — add a free Google API key for exact like/comment/subscriber counts instead of best-effort estimates. **How it works:** Open any YouTube video → the side panel reads the title, description, and transcript directly from YouTube's own page data → sends it to the AI provider you configured → shows you the score, signals, highlights, and any promotional content, all in seconds. Results are cached per video, so reopening the same video is instant. **Your privacy:** This extension collects nothing. There is no backend server — your video data goes directly from your browser to the AI provider you chose, using your own API key. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection of any kind by the developer. Full privacy policy included with the extension. **Note on dislikes:** YouTube removed public dislike counts in 2021. No extension — this one included — can show a real dislike number anymore, so we don't fake one. Perfect for anyone who's tired of 20-minute videos that could've been a tweet — students, researchers, and anyone trying to reclaim their time from clickbait!