BaitBuster
See what the title is hiding. Before you click.
BaitBuster is a browser extension for YouTube — Chrome, Brave, or Edge. 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.
Add to Chrome — freeFree to install. 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 everyone waists time on misleading clickbait! That is the whole idea.
Every click on the bust button is counted. The board on the right shows the five videos people have asked about most — answers included, free.
- 1I Left The U.S. For Shenzhen, China – Here's How Much It CostsLiving in Shenzhen, China, costs about $2,000 a month for a family of four, including $1,000 for a three-bedroom apartment, $50 for transportation, $90 for healthcare, $29 for Wi-Fi, $100 for electricity, and $100 for groceries.6
- 2This Killed All But 1,000 Humans 900,000 Years AgoA severe evolutionary bottleneck between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago reduced the ancestral human population to as low as 1,280 people. The most likely cause was the Middle Pleistocene Transition event, a dramatic shift in glacial cycles that led to colder, drier conditions.5
- 3Things Declassified Recently That Nobody Noticed1. The CIA Magic Manual: A guide written by magician John Mulholland for spies on sleight of hand for espionage, declassified in 2007. · 2. Project Starfish Prime: A 1962 US military test that detonated a nuclear bomb in space, creating an artificial aurora, an EMP that knocked out power in Hawaii, and a radiation belt that destroyed satellites. · 3. The Voice of God Weapon: US military technology that beams sound directly into a single person's skull using ultrasonic waves, considered for use in the Gulf War. · 4. Operation Ivy Bells: A US Navy operation that wiretapped a Soviet military communications cable underwater for a decade until it was sold to the Soviets by a former NSA employee. · 5. Project Azorian: A CIA operation in 1974 to recover a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the Pacific 4
- 4Why Do We Never Eat Elephants meat?Humans almost never eat elephant meat because it spoils too quickly, they breed too slowly to be sustainable livestock, they are dangerous and expensive to manage, they became workers and sacred symbols in many cultures, and they were hunted to near extinction for ivory, leading to protection laws. Additionally, their intelligence and social behaviors make eating them feel different.4
- 5When Our Simplest Invention Killed 95% Of All Men AliveThe invention of farming, which led to the Neolithic Revolution, created fixed settlements and property, leading to inter-group warfare primarily affecting men. This caused a genetic bottleneck where 95% of all men alive died between 7,000 and 5,000 years ago.4
Not a subscription. We hate being quietly charged too.
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. When the year is up it simply stops. Nothing renews, nothing is charged again.
- 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 — the video is one click away on every answer.
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) — today, all with the same download. Firefox and Safari need their own store submissions; the extension is tiny, so they are a matter of time, not of possibility.