BaitBuster
See what the title is hiding. Before you click.
BaitBuster is a browser extension for YouTube — Chrome, Brave, Edge, or Firefox. Hover a clickbait title, click the burst, and get the answer the title is teasing — pulled from the video's own captions. No more "you won't BELIEVE what happened" with twelve minutes of stalling.
Chrome, Brave, Edge and other Chromium browsers use the Chrome one. Manual install if you prefer to load it yourself.
Click to try it right now!
Three seconds instead of twelve minutes
It works everywhere YouTube shows you a title.
Hover a video
A small burst appears in front of the title. On videos that are already busted, it's there all the time.
Click the burst
BaitBuster reads the video's captions and answers the question the title (and the thumbnail) is really asking.
Decide
Laugh at the disappointing answer, or watch the video. Your choice.
Every busted video is free to the whole world. Forever.
When anyone busts a video, the answer is available to every other BaitBuster user, free, instantly, no key, no account. One person pays a fraction of a cent; everyone else saves minutes of time and frustration.
The more people bust, the less time everyone wastes on misleading clickbait! That is the whole idea.
Every bust saves its buster the video's length — and saves it again for everyone who reads the answer instead of watching. The board on the right shows the five people who have saved the most. The whole leaderboard.
- 1AceOfSpace7 days 10 hours
- 2ArtfulTourist6 hours 24 minutes
- 3BaitBuster1 hour 22 minutes
Nobody yet — be the first.
It's an ANTI-SUBSCRIPTION. Because we are NOT greedy bastards.
Reading answers is free and always will be. Busting a video that nobody has busted yet costs a fraction of a cent of AI time. Two ways to cover it:
A BaitBuster pass
- One payment. The ANTI-SUBSCRIPTION. Nothing renews. Nothing is EVER charged again. We will never bill you for something you stopped using.
- Share it with your friends.* Seriously — a pass is a key you're meant to hand around. It only ever spends the year you bought. (Crowded key? Buy a second — one to share, one to keep.)
* A pass that is used super-heavily gets slow, not expensive.
Your own OpenRouter key
- Paste an OpenRouter key into BaitBuster's settings.
- Your browser calls OpenRouter directly. The key never goes anywhere else — not even to us.
- Every video you bust joins the free pile for everyone.
- Don't share your OpenRouter key — it spends real money with no limit. Get a BaitBuster pass if you want something to share.
Exactly what leaves your browser
No account. No tracking. Your feed is never sent anywhere — whether a video is already busted is checked inside your browser against a small downloaded list.
| When | What is sent |
|---|---|
| You scroll YouTube | Nothing. |
| You click the burst | Nothing about you is sent anywhere. The video's title, thumbnail, and captions are sent to IronMedia.com (this server). |
| You bust with your own OpenRouter key | Same as above, but your key goes only to OpenRouter, never anywhere else. |
| You buy a pass | Your email and payment ID go to us. We won't sell your email and we won't spam you. |
The extension asks for one permission: youtube.com. Full privacy policy.
Questions
Aren't there other summarizers?
Yes — and that is exactly what they are. A summarizer hands you a paragraph about the video: "the creator discusses protein intake and common misconceptions…" — which you already knew from the title. BaitBuster doesn't summarize. It answers the question the title and thumbnail are asking. "How much does it REALLY cost?" gets a number. "Only ONE is worth buying" gets the name. "10 foods to avoid" gets the ten foods. The bait poses a question; you get the answer; the itch is gone.
Is this allowed? Isn't YouTube going to mind?
BaitBuster reads the same public captions YouTube shows you with the CC button, and shows you a short answer beside the video. It doesn't block ads, doesn't download videos, and doesn't hide anything.
Every answer links straight to the video — "details in the full video" — and we want you to click it whenever you'd like more than the answer. A video with real substance behind its title still gets watched; the answer just tells you it's worth your time. The only videos that lose are the empty ones, where the entire payoff fits in one sentence. Those deserve to lose.
What if the video has no captions?
Then there's nothing to read, and BaitBuster says so. Most videos with real speech have automatic captions.
Why should I share my pass? Won't that cost you?
A pass is an allowance that refills over the year; friends sharing one just spend it together. We'd rather ten friends share a pass than nine of them get clickbaited. And if the shared one gets crowded, buy a second — one to share, one to keep; a pass bought in the browser where BaitBuster is installed becomes your installed key by itself. The full explanation, with numbers.
Does it work in other languages?
Yes. Answers come in your language (pick it in settings), whatever language the video is in.
Which browsers?
Chrome, Brave, Edge — and any other Chromium browser (Arc, Opera, Vivaldi) — all with the same download. Firefox: install it from the Firefox add-ons store. Safari needs its own store submission; the extension is tiny, so it is a matter of time, not of possibility.