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Find out if your YouTube channel looks like one about to be terminated.

TubeSafe scans any channel and scores how closely its patterns match the faceless channels suspended in the January 2026 enforcement wave. No OAuth, no account needed. Sign in with just your email to watch channels and get alerts.

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Free during beta. Works on any public YouTube channel.

What we check

Five behavioral signals, scored on the last 50 uploads of any channel.

Upload cadence

Measures variance in upload timing. Clockwork posting with no scheduling signature is how reviewers flag automation.

Video duration

Detects assembly-line runtimes where every video clusters around the same length, a signature of production templates.

Title patterns

Jaccard similarity across recent titles, plus template detection: bracket tags, leading-word lockstep, emoji density.

Thumbnail similarity

Perceptual hashing across recent thumbnails. Near-identical layouts with only text swapped are a documented flag.

Reviewer focus

Checks the exact subsets a YouTube reviewer examines first: your newest uploads and your top-viewed videos.

About section

Empty, short, or template-like About sections trigger a separate flag. Reviewers read this first.

Stay ahead of the next wave

YouTube has tightened enforcement nearly every quarter since 2025. TubeSafe keeps watching so you don't have to.

Watch a channel

Star your own channel (or a competitor's). TubeSafe rescans it automatically and emails you if its risk band changes or its score starts sliding.

Pre-publish check

Before you upload, check a draft title and thumbnail against your recent videos. Near-duplicates and template formulas get flagged. Runs in your browser; your draft never leaves it.

Score history

See how a channel's score moves over time, so you can tell whether your changes are working.

Policy updates

A short email when YouTube changes the rules that matter for faceless and automated channels. Unsubscribe in one click.

How it works

Install, open, scan. No account required. Sign in only to save history and get alerts.

Install

Add TubeSafe from the Chrome Web Store. Works in Chrome, Brave, and any Chromium browser.

Visit a channel

Go to any YouTube channel page. TubeSafe injects a compliance badge into the channel header automatically.

Read the score

A 0–100 score with a risk band, a breakdown of all five signals, and specific fixes for anything flagged.

Privacy-first by design

Anonymous by default. An email address only if you choose to sign in.

  • No account needed and never any OAuth. Works on any public channel.
  • Without an account, no personal data is collected. A random device ID (stored on our server only as a one-way hash) counts scans for the daily limit and anonymous usage stats.
  • Signing in is optional and uses only your email (a 6-digit code, no password). Delete your account and its data from the extension at any time.
  • No third-party trackers or analytics scripts on the landing page or in the extension. Usage stats are first-party only.
  • Only public YouTube data is analyzed, via the official YouTube Data API. Nothing from your Google account is accessed.
  • Pre-publish checks and thumbnail analysis run in your browser. Your drafts are never uploaded.

One honest disclaimer

TubeSafe is not a prediction of YouTube action. It is an automated heuristic that flags pattern similarity to recently terminated channels. A green score is not a guarantee your channel is safe. A red score is not an endorsement of policy violation. Use it as one signal among many when deciding how to operate your channel.