HealthyUI Chrome Extension

The purpose of the Bursting the Bubble Chrome extension is to allow users to ”burst the bubble”. That is, we want to allow video viewers to have easier access to information that might challenge their views on politics. However, we do not stop there, and our goal is also to allow these users to easily access

information to prove or disprove information found in videos they are consuming.

We add another step in our approach by adding a carbon emission tracker to this extension. While users might not necessarily click on the articles we display to them, the extension will display their carbon

footprint due to YouTube video consumption, hopefully reducing online data consumption. In fact, it has been shown that people react positively to information bringing awareness to a problem (Wang et al., 2024).

Lastly, the end goal of this project is to collect data from users (with their permission) using our extension, which will allow us to conduct the following research regarding filter bubbles. That is, this project was started from the research on the topic of Bursting the Bubble by McGill undergraduates

(Wang et al., 2024), as there was a need to collect data regarding filter bubbles and to provide the ever-growing McGillian community a tool to fight against the YouTube recommendation algorithm when necessary. The end goal of this project will be to conduct another research using the data provided from