Netflix hides IMDb ratings, so NoFluff puts them back on every title. It also hits Skip for you on YouTube ads and on Netflix and Prime Video intros, recaps and credits, even in fullscreen.
Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and Opera. Open source, MIT licensed.
You scroll, you guess from the artwork, you give a show twenty minutes. IMDb already knows whether it is any good. Netflix just does not show you.
Extensions that fixed this existed, and then Netflix changed its page and they stopped working.
There is no server, so ratings need your own free key. That is the whole trade, and it is why nothing gets tracked. Skipping needs no key and works the moment it is loaded.
Download it from GitHub and load it unpacked in Chrome. A setup page opens by itself.
The setup page walks you through it: one form, one email, one click. Then paste the key into the ticket.
A badge appears on every title card. Hover for votes, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Click to open IMDb.
This is what Netflix looks like with it on. These are made-up titles, so the numbers are too.
The last one is on purpose. When the extension is not confident it has the right title, it says so instead of guessing.
NoFluff presses Skip the instant YouTube, Netflix or Prime Video offers it. No countdown stare, no hunting for the button, and it works in fullscreen.
Press Skip. The extension does exactly this, on its own, on the real sites.
Skippable video ads, static image ads, and the closable ad banners.
Skip Intro and Skip Recap.
Skip Intro, Skip Recap and Skip Credits.
NoFluff is not an ad blocker. It only presses the Skip button the site itself offers, and it will not click "Next episode".
YouTube ignores clicks made by scripts, and static ads have no video to jump past. For those, NoFluff sends a real click through Chrome's debugger API, so Chrome shows a "started debugging this browser" bar for a few seconds. That is the only reason it asks for the debugger permission.
The toolbar popup has a switch per site, a switch per skip type, and a counter of what it skipped today.
Plain JavaScript, no dependencies, no build step. You can read all of it in an afternoon.
A badge at the bottom-left of each title: green at 7.5 and up, yellow to 6.0, red below. Hover for the IMDb score with vote count, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. Open a title and all three sit above the details.
Netflix gives no IMDb ID, so titles are matched by name. If the match looks wrong, you get a ?, not a confident wrong number.
Your own OMDb key, cached for 30 days, fetched only for cards on screen. Normal browsing barely scratches it.
Your browser talks to OMDb directly, and skipping never touches the network. No analytics, no remote fonts, no third-party scripts. Skipping reads nothing from the pages; it only presses Skip.
Cards are found by routing links and test attributes, not CSS classes. Loud console warning if detection ever breaks.
MIT licensed. Read it, fork it, fix it. If Netflix changes its page and something breaks, a pull request is usually a handful of lines.
The setup page shows exactly what to fill in on OMDb, mocks the email so you know which part to copy, and catches the usual mistake of copying the activation code. Paste the whole email and it finds the key.
It is not in the Chrome Web Store, so you load it yourself. Takes about two minutes.
chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode (top right).nofluff folder (nofluff-main if you downloaded the ZIP).# get the code
git clone https://github.com/rushilbh27/nofluff.git
Yes. The extension is MIT licensed. The ratings come from OMDb, whose free key allows 1,000 lookups a day. There is no account with us and nothing to pay.
Because there is no server in the middle. Your lookups use your quota and go straight from your browser to OMDb. That is also why nothing about what you watch can be collected: there is nowhere for it to go.
For ratings, it reads titles on the Netflix pages you browse so it can look them up, and sends those title strings to OMDb with your key. Your key and cached ratings stay in your browser. For skipping, it only looks for the Skip button on YouTube, Netflix and Prime Video and presses it; nothing from those pages is read out or sent anywhere. No analytics, no telemetry. It is all unminified, so you can check.
It is not published there, so you load it unpacked from GitHub. Chrome may nag about developer-mode extensions now and then. That is normal for any unpacked extension.
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and Opera. Not Firefox or Safari.
Netflix does not expose IMDb IDs, so titles are matched by name, and that is never perfect. When the match looks doubtful you get a ? instead of a number. If you spot a wrong one, open an issue with the title and what the hover card said.
Eventually something will break. The extension warns in the console when it finds no title cards, and every Netflix-specific selector is in one place, so a fix is small. Issues and pull requests are welcome.
Every ad YouTube lets you skip, yes: video ads and static image ads, plus the closable banners. It does not block ads, and an ad with no Skip button stays put. It presses Skip the moment the button is there.
YouTube ignores clicks made by scripts, and static ads have no video to jump to the end of. For those, NoFluff sends a real click through Chrome's debugger API, which is the only reason it asks for the debugger permission. Chrome shows its own bar for a few seconds while that happens. It only ever targets youtube.com, and the bar goes away by itself.
Skipping works on Prime Video: intro, recap and credits. Ratings are Netflix only for now, and Disney+ is not supported yet. The structure would allow more, and it is on the list of good first contributions.