ew AI slop, nty

youtube's AI slop, gone. the Ask button, AI summaries, robot chapters, auto-dubs, translated titles. ew. nty.

youtube's AI slop, gone. ew. nty. youtube keeps shoving AI into everything whether you asked or not. this rips it back out. what it kills: ✕ the gemini "Ask" button (nobody asked) ✕ AI "summaries" of the video you were literally about to watch ✕ robot-made auto chapters (the ones the creator wrote stay) ✕ auto-dubbing. no more robot voice, the actual person talks ✕ machine-translated titles in search ✕ "Ask YouTube" in the search bar + AI answers on top of results ✕ the "Jump ahead" button ✕ AI comment summaries and AI live chat recaps opt-in extras, off by default: • ALL chapters: kills creator chapters too, since a lot of channels just paste in AI-written ones now • real titles everywhere: undoes translated titles on home, sidebar and the watch page too • hide auto-dubbed videos: they just vanish from home + sidebar everything's a switch. on = nuked. turn one off if you actually miss it (weirdo). how it works: it strips the AI stuff out of youtube's page data before youtube even draws it, so nothing flashes in and then disappears. there's a CSS backup for anything that sneaks through. privacy: collects nothing, sends nothing anywhere. no accounts, no tracking, no analytics. your switches live in your browser's storage. the only network request it ever makes is the opt-in "real titles everywhere" asking youtube itself for video titles. something AI still showing up? open the popup, hit "copy debug info", and drop it in an issue on github: https://github.com/rensters/ew-ai-slop/issues free and open source: https://github.com/rensters/ew-ai-slop like it? buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/rensters AI Disclosure: I wrote most of this code myself. AI (Claude) was used for a small number of fixes, and I reviewed every change it made.