Discontent

Search engines reward pages that are engineered for ranking, not for readers, and the flood of cheap AI-written SEO content has made that worse. Discontent is a lightweight Chrome extension that adds a quality layer on top of your normal results. Once installed, it reads a shared community database and shows a small emoji next to search links so you can tell trusted, hand-made sites from spammy ones at a glance.

The signal is deliberately simple. A red ❌ means the site has a poor community score, 🤨 means opinions are split, and 💚 marks sites users actively like. Because scores are crowdsourced rather than produced by a single opaque model, the list reflects the judgment of real readers and evolves as more people install the extension and vote.

Discontent is built and maintained as an open-source project, published on the Chrome Web Store by developer tom-barone. It works with Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, has no paid tier, and states that it does not collect or use your data.