Weedout is a Safari extension that hides YouTube's AI-labeled videos from feeds and search

What Weedout does

Weedout is a Safari extension for macOS that removes videos carrying YouTube's "Made with AI" disclosure label from the home feed, search results, related-video rails, playlists and Shorts shelves. The developer posted it to Hacker News as a Show HN project on September 1, where it reached the front page; the product page is hosted on GitHub Pages under the developer's handle, masteranza.

Rather than interrupting playback with a blocking screen, the extension makes flagged items disappear from the page before a viewer scrolls past them. According to the project page, a labeled video vanishes from a live feed in roughly half a second, and items that are already cached never render at all. The on-page demonstration is explicitly marked as simulated, so the removal speed is the developer's claim rather than an independently verified figure.

Filtering, dimming and Shorts

Beyond plain removal, Weedout ships a few related behaviors:

• An optional auto-skip mode for the Shorts player, which jumps over AI-labeled Shorts instead of playing them.
• A "dim mode" that visually wilts flagged videos in place instead of deleting them, giving skeptical users a way to see exactly what the extension is catching before they trust it.
• A support channel: the developer asks users to email bug reports, including video links for anything the filter misses, which doubles as feedback on detection gaps.

Detection relies entirely on YouTube's badge

The most consequential design choice is that Weedout does no detection of its own. It reads YouTube's own "Made with AI" badge — no heuristics, no content analysis, no guessing, according to the project page. That avoids false positives by construction: a video is only hidden if YouTube itself has already labeled it.

The flip side is stated plainly on the page: unlabeled AI content is out of scope for now. If a creator uploads AI-generated material without disclosing it, or if the label simply doesn't appear, Weedout has nothing to act on. The extension's usefulness is therefore capped by the accuracy and completeness of YouTube's disclosure system, not by anything the tool does.

Privacy and availability

The project page says the extension requires no account, does no tracking and collects no data, with all processing happening locally on the Mac. No versions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge or other operating systems are mentioned — Safari on macOS is the only supported target.

Why it matters

YouTube already requires creators to disclose realistic synthetic media and surfaces those disclosures as labels on videos. Weedout represents a small but telling next step: a user taking a label the platform already publishes and turning it into a personal, client-side feed filter, without waiting for YouTube to ship a native toggle.

It also exposes the structural limit of disclosure-based filtering. A tool like Weedout can only ever be as good as the labeling underneath it, and the developer openly excludes unlabeled AI content from scope. If demand for this kind of filtering keeps surfacing on places like Hacker News, it puts pressure on two fronts: platforms to label synthetic content consistently, and the broader ecosystem to decide whether feed-level AI filtering belongs in the browser, in the platform, or in both.