Unslop FAQ — Everything About the Local AI-Content Blocker
A late-2025 study found that roughly 21% of YouTube recommendations served to new users were AI-generated slop, with another ~33% qualifying as "brainrot" (source). YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has named managing AI slop and detecting deepfakes a priority for 2026 (source). Unslop is a 100% local browser extension that filters AI content out of your YouTube and Facebook feeds — this page answers everything we get asked about how it works, what it costs, and where it honestly falls short.
Jump to: Getting started · How filtering works · Privacy · Free vs Pro · Comparisons · Troubleshooting
Getting started
1. How do I install Unslop?
Install it from the Chrome Web Store like any other extension — it runs on Chromium-based browsers. There's no account, no signup, and no onboarding wizard; it starts filtering YouTube and Facebook as soon as it's enabled. For a full walkthrough, including free methods that don't involve us at all, see how to block AI videos on YouTube.
2. Which browsers does Unslop support?
Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Arc. It is not available for Firefox or any mobile browser, and we'd rather tell you that now than after you've gone looking. If you browse primarily on your phone, Unslop can't help you yet.
3. What happens on first run? Do I need to configure anything?
Nothing is required: out of the box, Unslop scans supported feeds using its built-in signals — visible text, hashtags, and the platform's "Altered or synthetic content" disclosure label — and the blocked counter starts climbing immediately. The two settings worth visiting early are the filter mode (remove vs. blur) and your custom keywords. Everything is stored locally in your browser.
4. Where exactly does Unslop filter?
On YouTube: the home feed, search results, the sidebar recommendations, and Shorts shelves. On Facebook: the main feed. That's the complete list — it does not touch comments, other websites, or other corners of Facebook, and we won't pretend otherwise.
How filtering works
5. What signals does Unslop use to detect AI content?
Four, all evaluated locally in your browser: visible text (titles, descriptions), hashtags, your own custom keywords, and the platform's "Altered or synthetic content" disclosure label where present. There is no cloud lookup, no model phoning home, and no remote database — every decision happens on your machine. For context on how much slop is actually out there, our data explainer AI slop by the numbers runs through the research.
6. What is whole-word matching and why should I care?
It means the keyword "AI" matches the word AI — not Dubai, email, or rain. This is the difference between a usable filter and one that hides your friend's vacation photos. Unslop's matcher currently has 16 passing tests covering exactly these substring traps.
7. What slips through the filter?
Undisclosed AI content with a clean, human-sounding title and no disclosure label — Unslop reads text; it does not analyze pixels or audio, and it has no acoustic AI-voice detection. That's a deliberate trade-off: pixel and audio analysis would require either heavy local compute or shipping your viewing data to a server, and Unslop was built to do neither. If a specific flavor of slop keeps getting past it, add a custom keyword (see question 26).
8. What about false positives — legitimate content getting hidden?
Three safeguards: whole-word matching (so "rain" never trips an "AI" keyword), blur mode (so you can see what was caught and click through), and the creator whitelist (so trusted channels are never filtered). If one of your keywords turns out to be too aggressive, narrow it or delete it — the list is entirely yours.
9. How does the creator whitelist work?
Add a creator to the whitelist and their content is never filtered, regardless of which keywords or labels it would otherwise trip. It's the right tool for channels that cover AI without being AI slop — good AI journalism would otherwise be collateral damage.
10. Should I use remove mode or blur mode?
Remove hides matched content entirely; blur keeps the card in place but obscured, with a click to reveal. Blur is the better starting mode while you tune your keywords, because you can audit exactly what's being caught. Once you trust your setup, switch to remove for the cleaner feed.
11. Does filtering AI content reduce AI's energy use or emissions?
No, and we won't imply that it does. Unslop hides content in your browser after it has already been generated, recommended, and served — nothing about the upstream energy cost changes. For scale: the IEA projects data centre electricity consumption roughly doubling from ~485 TWh in 2025 to ~950 TWh by 2030, with AI the most significant driver (source) — a browser extension does not move that needle.
Privacy
12. What permissions does Unslop request?
Only the storage permission, which it uses to save your settings, keywords, whitelist, and blocked counter locally in your browser. There is no account to create and no server to talk to.
13. What data can you see about me?
Nothing. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no server, and no account system — we cannot see what you watch, what you block, or whether you use the extension at all. This isn't a privacy-policy nicety; it's an architectural fact, because there is no backend for data to be sent to.
14. How is my Pro key verified without a server?
With an ECDSA signature check that runs entirely on your device: your key is cryptographically signed, and the extension verifies that signature offline. No activation server, no phone-home, no periodic license check. Your key works with no internet connection and would keep working even if we vanished tomorrow.
Free vs Pro
15. What does the free version include?
The whole core product: YouTube and Facebook filtering, remove and blur modes, the creator whitelist, the live blocked counter (total and today), and up to 20 custom keywords. Free is not a trial and does not expire.
16. What happens when I hit the 20-keyword cap?
You simply can't add a 21st keyword — nothing is deleted, nothing stops working, and your existing 20 keep filtering forever. The cap is a ceiling, not a countdown. Pro removes it.
17. What does Pro actually add?
Unlimited custom keywords, import/export of keyword lists, advanced blur options, and a supporter badge. Everything else — both platforms, all modes, the whitelist, the counter — is already in the free version.
18. How much does Pro cost? Is it a subscription?
It's a one-time $5 unlock — pay once, keep it forever. Pricing is pay-what-you-want with a $3 floor, so pay $3 if money's tight and more if you want to fund development. There is nothing to cancel, because nothing recurs.
19. What's the refund policy?
Fourteen days, no hoops. If Unslop doesn't fit your setup or you simply change your mind, contact us within 14 days of purchase for a full refund. At $3–5, we'd rather refund quickly than argue.
Comparisons
20. How does Unslop compare to the free YouTube-only blockers?
Honestly: if you only use YouTube, a free tool may be all you need, and you should try one before paying anyone. Stay with Clarity if you want $0 with an optional community blocklist and a simple toggle. Stay with ByeAI if you want crowd-voted flagging that spans AI voice, thumbnail, script, deepfake, and music signals at $0. Stay with AI Slop Blocker if you want a deliberately conservative filter that only hides self-disclosed AI videos and also hides Google AI Overviews. Unslop's case is the combination — Facebook feed coverage, custom keywords with whole-word matching, blur mode, and a whitelist — and the full breakdown is in our 2026 comparison.
21. How does Unslop compare to AI Content Shield?
AI Content Shield covers roughly 20 sites — including TikTok, X, Instagram, Reddit, Spotify, and Gmail — and offers AI-voice blocking in its Pro tier; stay with it if you live across many platforms, want the widest coverage available, and accept a subscription ($6/mo, or $4.95/mo billed yearly, about $59/yr). Unslop covers two platforms, costs $5 once, and runs with no account and no server. The honest framing: they win on breadth; Unslop's case is its one-time pricing and its architecture — 100% local, no account, no server. There's a side-by-side in the comparison post.
22. Can't I just use uBlock Origin with custom filter lists?
You can, and uBlock Origin is excellent, free, and worth running regardless. With hand-written element filters you can hide specific channels and page sections, and if you enjoy maintaining filter syntax, stay with that approach — it costs nothing. What Unslop adds is purpose-built behavior that's tedious to replicate by hand: whole-word keyword matching, reading the platform's AI-disclosure label, blur-with-reveal, a creator whitelist, and a blocked counter. Different tools for different patience levels.
23. Is Unslop the first or best tool of its kind?
No, and we won't claim either. Several free AI-content blockers shipped before Unslop, and we've listed the good ones above with reasons to choose them. The honest pitch is a specific combination — local-only operation, YouTube and Facebook coverage, one-time pricing — not superlatives; pick based on which platforms you actually use.
Troubleshooting
24. A page's layout looks broken after enabling Unslop. What do I do?
First, refresh the page — YouTube and Facebook change their markup frequently, and a stale page is the most common cause. Second, switch to blur mode temporarily, which keeps the feed's grid intact while still showing you what's being filtered. If the breakage persists, report it via the contact link on the homepage with your browser and the page where it happened; layout fixes ship in updates.
25. The blocked counter isn't climbing. Is it broken?
Probably not — the counter only increments when something is actually blocked on a supported surface (YouTube home, search, sidebar, and Shorts shelves; the Facebook main feed). If you're on a watch page, reading comments, or your feed happens to be clean right now, the number won't move. Note that "today" resets daily while "total" is lifetime, and whitelisted creators never count. If it stays at zero on a feed you know contains matches, refresh and confirm the extension is enabled for that site.
26. Something slipped through. How do I report a miss?
The fastest fix is self-serve: if the slop shares a recurring phrase or hashtag, add it as a custom keyword and it's gone from then on. For misses that text matching can't catch — undisclosed AI with a clean title and no disclosure label — that's a known limitation (see question 7), but please send the link via the homepage contact anyway, since reports directly inform detection updates. We'd rather hear about ten misses than have you assume the filter works better than it does.
Still deciding?
Start with the free tier — 20 keywords covers most setups, and nothing expires. For background reading: how to block AI videos on YouTube covers every method including the free ones, the 2026 blocker comparison is our honest look at five tools including our own, AI slop by the numbers collects the research, and reclaim your feed covers the habits no extension can fix for you.
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