About Couchlist

Couchlist is a list of websites, kept by the people who use them. Anyone can browse it without an account. Members suggest sites, correct listings, vote on whether a site is actually any good, and flag the ones that have gone bad.

The ranking is a confidence-weighted score rather than a raw percentage, so a site with four votes does not sit above one with four hundred. Moderators can pin a handful of trusted picks and add short quality notes, and both are labelled as human choices rather than dressed up as algorithmic ones.

• It hosts nothing. No video, no comics, no translated pages, no proxying, no embedding. Every link goes straight to the site it names, in a new tab. Couchlist is a page of addresses.
• It is not an endorsement. A listing means somebody found a site and other people voted on it. Sites with heavy advertising are labelled, and sites we think you should avoid stay listed with the warning attached, because somebody who hears the name elsewhere is better served by a warning than by silence.
• It does not follow you. No third-party analytics, no advertising network, no third-party scripts, no tracking pixels, and nothing that probes your browser. Listings carry a plain visit total; people do not. See the privacy page for exactly what is stored.
• It will never ask you for money or a card. There is no payment of any kind. If a page claiming to be Couchlist asks for either, it is not us — please tell us about it.

• Suggestions are reviewed by a moderator before anything is published.
• When several people suggest the same site, the submissions are grouped and everyone who sent it is credited.
• A weekly automated check visits each listed address once and records whether it answered. Three failures in a row put the listing in front of a moderator.
• Nothing is hidden or re-ranked automatically on the strength of that check alone. A bad afternoon on somebody else’s server is not a reason to delete a good listing.
• Anyone signed in can report a broken link in one click, or suggest a correction.

Couchlist is run by Couchlist. It is a personal project, not a company, and it carries no advertising.

Write to anarchyburn@gmail.com about anything: a listing that is wrong, a site that should not be here, a security problem, or a removal request. Security reports are welcome and will not be met with lawyers — see security.txt.

These are third-party websites and we do not control them. Use an ad blocker, do not install anything a streaming site tells you to install, and do not reuse a password you care about. The guides cover the practical parts, starting with picking an ad blocker for your actual browser.