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.
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?
I'm more concerned about the stuff that is fraudulent then possibly legit stuff explicitly labelled as AI
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.
I wish I had this but for every website and media surface
Ironically, if you had this for every website, including GitHub and HN, you wouldn't have seen this HN submission / repository :)
That's also true, you gotta fight fire with fire :)
Well, AI flags this content so it's an easy target without heuristics - that's why I've started there.
You can charge money for browser extensions? And people pay for them?
I'm in the wrong business.
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.