Weedout
Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
Details
- External ID
- 49528895
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Weedout
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 185
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9617224880382775
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Description
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-youtubePull requests are not accepted; the repository is for independent forks.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai video creation and repurposing
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- browser extension hiding youtube ai-labeled videos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Weedout is a straightforward Safari web extension that inspects the YouTube DOM for YouTube's built-in 'Made with AI' badge element and hides or dims those cards. This requires standard content script DOM manipulation and a basic Safari extension wrapper.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: YouTube native filtering (built-in AI content detection), YouTube-without-ai (Firefox extension)
Concerns raised: Mislabeling risk: music may be flagged as AI when only visuals are AI-generated, Overly broad filtering may hide quality AI-assisted content, YouTube lacks clear distinction between AI-generated vs AI-assisted content
Feature requests: Chrome browser support, Firefox browser support, Mobile version for YouTube on phones/tablets
Competitors
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Attention rank: #4 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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