Reliable Reddit is a lightweight browser extension designed to promote information transparency by surfacing hidden metrics on Reddit posts and user accounts
The social media site experienced mass user growth in the past few years, resulting in an increase in automated and biased posts, from people trying to farm upvotes or control narratives. Reliable Reddit helps users distinguish between genuine community engagement and potential manipulation.
- 📊 Visual Upvote Ratio: See post sentiment and controversiality at a glance with a YouTube-style like/dislike bar on every post
- 👤 Instant OP Insights: Directly view user's account age and total karma on pages to better discern burner accounts. Offers a redirect to 3rd party Arctic Shift Search for users who hide their profile to check for bad-faith actors
- 🤖 Bot/AI Detection: Calls a HuggingFace LLM model to gauge if picture posts are generated by AI (Client side API call, requires personal API key). The extension can also highlight comments mentioning "AI" or "bot" to help flag suspicious posts
- 🎨 UI Versatility: Supports both New and Old Reddit designs
- ⚡ Lightweight & Modular: Toggle and adjust features in extension popup menu
- Download the extension from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons.
- Pin the extension to your toolbar.
- Refresh any Reddit tab to see the new data overlays.
- (Optional) To use the Huggingface API call, you will need to register and generate your own personal API Read token on the Huggingface website and key it into the extension popup. See this page for in-depth instructions: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/security-tokens
If you want to run this locally or contribute, clone the repo then: 0. Follow instructions in the To Build section below
- Open your browser's extension management page (chrome://extensions or about:debugging).
- Enable Developer Mode.
- Click Load unpacked and select the dist or root folder of the cloned project, if on Firefox/Chrome respectively.
- npm install
- npm run build:all
- TypeScript: For core logic and DOM manipulation
- React: Custom UI components for the post information box, settings dashboard etc.
- HuggingFace SMOGY-Ai-images-detector: Lightweight LLM that detects if images are AI generated over a 0-100 confidence scale
- Vite: Build tool and bundler for the project
Contributions, improvement and feedback welcome. Feel free to fork and raise an issue/PR in the repo!
If you like my project, consider giving the repo a star or rate on Chrome/Firefox store! Publicity is the best compensation for a free, open-source extension like this one :)
MIT License. Feel free to modify, fork or improve wherever you want. Reliable Reddit is not affiliated with Arctic Shift Search or HuggingFace. Reliable Reddit is provided with the intent of being used for informative and non-malicious purposes only.
Made by Swen Tang, 2026