f you are tired of synthetic junk cluttering your video recommendations, a small utility is betting you will pay out of pocket to make it disappear. A lightweight Safari extension called Weedout has landed on the Mac App Store for a flat $1.99, stripping videos marked with YouTube’s official "Made with AI" badge directly out of your home feed, search results, related sidebars, playlists, and Shorts shelves.
The tool runs entirely on-device on macOS 13 and later, bypassing external servers, accounts, and telemetry collection altogether. Rather than burning battery life on unreliable heuristic guessing, Weedout keys directly off YouTube's own disclosure metadata. In day-to-day browsing, flagged clips disappear in roughly half a second, while cached entries are blocked before they render. For users who want visual confirmation before wiping their feed, a built-in Dim mode greys out labeled entries in place, while a dedicated toggle automatically skips AI-tagged Shorts inside the player.
This utility highlights an uncomfortable reality: digital audiences are exhausted by synthetic clutter, yet major platforms remain unwilling to give viewers native toggle controls for organic feeds. While Weedout cannot catch creators who simply lie and skip disclosure tags, paying two dollars for a local filter is a rational trade-off for anyone who values a cleaner timeline over Google's algorithm.