RateMyTube - Chrome Extension

RateMyTube is a Chrome extension built to make Sinhala YouTube safer and easier to navigate. It helps viewers judge whether a video is trustworthy, accurately titled, and free from harmful manipulation. Many people rely on YouTube for news, education, and entertainment, yet misleading thumbnails, false titles, edited clips, and synthetic media can distort what viewers believe. RateMyTube addresses this problem by combining community feedback with automated checks to highlight potential risks before you spend time—or trust—on a video.

With RateMyTube, users can rate and review Sinhala YouTube videos based on credibility, context, and safety. Reviews can flag issues such as misleading claims, manipulated audio/video, deepfake-like segments, hate speech, or content designed to provoke harassment. Alongside these community signals, the extension uses algorithmic analysis to assess the video’s content and compare it with the title and surrounding metadata. When there is a mismatch—such as a sensational title that doesn’t reflect the actual content—RateMyTube can surface that discrepancy to help you make a more informed choice.

The goal is not to police opinions, but to support transparency and media literacy within the Sinhala YouTube community. By aggregating ratings and surfacing patterns across videos, RateMyTube helps viewers quickly recognize channels or uploads that repeatedly mislead, as well as content that appears reliable and responsibly presented. more