ChuTube Review

A notice addressed to parents sits on the front page, complete with a numbered list of further steps for keeping children off it. Adult tubes normally bury that language in a terms page nobody opens; putting it in the body of the index, beneath the categories, is a deliberate piece of positioning. Whether it changes anything is another matter, but it is there to be read.

The main bar assumes you will come back. Liked, Watch Later and History sit next to New, Popular and Best, so the site keeps a session's worth of memory about a visitor without asking for an account up front. An English and Hindi toggle sits at the far end of the same row.

Category counts are published, and they are worth reading against the branding. The site presents itself as Indian; its Desi and Indian shelves hold roughly 144,000 and 109,000 items, while Japanese holds over 400,000 and the largest shelf of all holds nearly 800,000. Down at the other end, several categories hold a few hundred each.

Channels and pornstars are browsable axes of their own. Nothing on the index states where any of the video comes from, who uploads it, or what relationship exists with the channels it names.