Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

masteranza.github.io

28 points by masteranza 2 hours ago

I'm the developer. I built this because AI-generated conspiracy videos were getting out of control in my own YouTube feed. Weedout is a $1.99 Safari extension for macOS that removes videos YouTube labels “Made with AI” from feed, search, related videos, playlists and Shorts. It uses YouTube's label rather than AI detection, runs locally, and does not catch unlabeled videos.

Source for developers who want to fork or build: https://github.com/masteranza/weedout-for-youtube

Pull requests are not accepted; the repository is for independent forks.

lukeasch21 - 12 minutes ago

This is great, but why start with Safari and not a cross platform browser? Is there something native here that can't be done otherwise or is it just personal preference?

singpolyma3 - an hour ago

I'm more concerned about the stuff that is fraudulent then possibly legit stuff explicitly labelled as AI

masteranza - 43 minutes ago

True, but that's a way harder problem to solve. For me what was important was reducing the noise as much as possible as fast as possible consistently. Youtube algorithms has been pervasive enough that anything that moves the scale down even a little bit was worth the effort.

thatmf - an hour ago

I wish I had this but for every website and media surface

embedding-shape - 29 minutes ago

Ironically, if you had this for every website, including GitHub and HN, you wouldn't have seen this HN submission / repository :)
- masteranza - 22 minutes ago
  
  That's also true, you gotta fight fire with fire :)
masteranza - an hour ago

Well, AI flags this content so it's an easy target without heuristics - that's why I've started there.

ranger_danger - 44 minutes ago

You can charge money for browser extensions? And people pay for them?

I'm in the wrong business.

masteranza - 41 minutes ago

It's free on GitHub for anyone to build, use or fork. I've built it for myself, but going through App Store submissions took me 2x the time, hence the price.