Take back your attention span. Face Value removes clickbait titles and thumbnails from YouTube and hides Shorts entirely.
Users
30
−30 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
5
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#129K
#108K among extensions
Version
0.1.3
updated 10 Jul 2026
Users
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:30 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 3 months
Latest, 15 Oct 2026:5 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About Face Value
Face Value is a clickbait remover for YouTube.
Every title on YouTube is written to grab your attention, and every thumbnail is engineered for clicks. Even honest creators package good videos this way, because the algorithm rewards whoever grabs hardest. Face Value takes that lever away.
Clean titles. Every title is rewritten based on the video's actual transcript, so it says plainly what the video contains. No caps lock, no curiosity gaps, no promises the video doesn't keep.
Clean thumbnails. The engineered thumbnail is replaced with a real frame taken from the video itself.
Hide Shorts. One toggle removes Shorts shelves, reels, and the sidebar button everywhere.
Channel exceptions. Trust a creator? Pause Face Value on their channel and see them exactly as they publish.
Hover any cleaned title, in the feed or on the watch page, to see the original. Live streams and search results are intentionally left untouched.
No account required. No analytics and no trackers. The only data sent is the public video ids and titles on pages you view, and settings stay in your browser.
Free and funded by donations: https://facethevalue.com
Source code: https://github.com/Bivtor/yt-clickbait-remover
Growth
Window
Users
Change
Ratings
Rating
7 days
−1
−3.2%
0
0.00
30 days
−30
−50.0%
0
0.00
Chrome Web Store search rankings
Where Face Value appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change