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

lukeasch21 · 2026-09-01T23:28:47.000000Z

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 · 2026-09-01T22:51:40.000000Z

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

masteranza · 2026-09-01T22:57:35.000000Z

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 · 2026-09-01T22:38:44.000000Z

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

embedding-shape · 2026-09-01T23:11:32.000000Z

Ironically, if you had this for every website, including GitHub and HN, you wouldn't have seen this HN submission / repository :)

masteranza · 2026-09-01T23:18:16.000000Z

That's also true, you gotta fight fire with fire :)

masteranza · 2026-09-01T22:40:42.000000Z

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

ranger_danger · 2026-09-01T22:56:16.000000Z

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

I'm in the wrong business.

masteranza · 2026-09-01T22:58:56.000000Z

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.