Unslop Settings Guide: Tune Your AI Filter (2026)

So you've installed Unslop and the blocked counter is ticking up. Now what? Out of the box, Unslop hides content that carries declared AI signals on YouTube and the Facebook main feed. But the real power is in the settings — choosing how aggressive to be, what counts as slop for you, and which creators get a pass.

This is a practical, knobs-and-dials guide to tuning the filter so it catches what you want and leaves the rest alone. It also covers what to do when something slips through or gets over-filtered, because no declared-signal filter is perfect.

If you're new to the whole problem, the short version: AI slop is now a measurable share of feeds. A late-2025 study found ~21% of YouTube recommendations to new users are AI-generated, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has named managing AI slop a 2026 priority. Unslop is one of several tools (it's not first to market) that lets you do something about it now instead of waiting.

First: remove or blur?

The single biggest setting is what Unslop does with a match. You get two modes:

• Remove strips the item from the feed entirely. The video tile or post disappears as if it were never recommended. This is the cleanest experience — you never see the thumbnail, the title, or the bait.
• Blur keeps the item in place but obscures it. You can still see that something was filtered and click through if you want.

Pick Remove if your goal is a quieter feed and you trust your keywords. Pick Blur if you're still tuning — blur lets you sanity-check what's getting caught before you commit to making it vanish. A common workflow: start on Blur for a few days, watch what gets hit, then switch to Remove once you're confident the filter isn't grabbing things you actually wanted.

Either way, the live blocked counter keeps a running total so you can see the filter working regardless of mode.

Adding custom keywords and hashtags

Unslop ships with detection for visible text, the platform's "Altered or synthetic content" disclosure label, and common AI markers. But your slop isn't everyone's slop. Custom keywords are where you make the filter yours.

A few principles for keywords that work:

• Lean on whole-word matching. Unslop matches whole words, not substrings (this is deliberate — it's why "Dubai" doesn't trip an ai filter, and why words like "email" and "rain" don't either; there are 16 passing tests guarding exactly these false positives). So ai as a keyword will match the standalone word "AI," not the "ai" buried inside "Dubai."
• Target the phrases slop actually uses. Think about the recurring language in the channels you want gone. Good starting keywords: AI generated, made with AI, Sora, Midjourney, Veo, AI cover, AI voice, deepfake, text to video. For music slop specifically, AI cover and AI song catch a lot.
• Use hashtags for the disclosed crowd. Many creators self-tag. Adding #aiart, #aigenerated, #aivideo, or #madewithai as keywords catches the honest ones cheaply.
• Be specific, not broad. A keyword like video will nuke half your feed. Keep keywords tied to AI production, not generic topic words.

Add a keyword, watch the counter and your feed for a day, and prune anything that over-fires. Tuning is iterative — that's the point of having the controls.

The whitelist: stop over-filtering

The flip side of aggressive keywords is collateral damage. If you filter on AI and you follow a channel that covers AI news, every legitimate video gets caught.

That's what the creator whitelist is for. Add a channel to the whitelist and Unslop will leave its content alone no matter what your keywords say. Use it for:

• Tech and AI-news channels you actually want (they say "AI" constantly).
• Creators you trust who occasionally use AI tools but whose work you still want.
• Anything that keeps getting caught when you know it shouldn't be.

The whitelist is almost always the right fix for over-filtering — reach for it before you start deleting otherwise-useful keywords. It lets you keep a sharp filter globally while carving out the exceptions that matter to you.

The 20-keyword free cap, and what Pro adds

The free tier gives you 20 custom keywords — enough for most people to build a tight, personal filter. The detection engine, remove/blur, whitelist, and counter are all free and stay free. There's no account, no server, and no telemetry; Unslop runs 100% locally with only the storage permission, and Pro keys are verified offline.

If 20 isn't enough — say you're filtering across many niches or maintaining a long, specific blocklist — Pro is a one-time $5 (pay-what-you-want with a $3 floor). No subscription. That's a deliberately different model from some competitors: AI Content Shield, for example, runs a recurring Pro tier (~$6/mo, ~$59/yr as of mid-2026) but in exchange offers things Unslop genuinely does not, like AI-voice acoustic detection across more sites. If acoustic voice detection or 20-site coverage is what you need, that tool may fit you better. Unslop's pitch is narrower and cheaper: a strong local filter for YouTube and Facebook, paid once.

Reading the counter

The blocked counter shows total and today figures. It's not just a vanity metric — it's your feedback loop:

• A today number that's climbing means the filter is actively working on your current session.
• A sudden spike after adding a keyword tells you that keyword is firing a lot (good, if those are real hits — worth a blur-mode spot-check if you're unsure).
• A flat counter when you expected hits means your keywords probably aren't matching the language those videos use. Time to revise.

Treat the counter as a tuning instrument, not a trophy.

Troubleshooting

"A page layout changed and something looks off." Platforms reshuffle their HTML regularly, and YouTube renders slop across home, search, sidebar, and the Shorts shelves. If a shelf stops being filtered after a platform update, that's usually a layout change on their end — refresh the page first, make sure the extension is enabled, and check for an Unslop update. This is a normal part of the cat-and-mouse with any feed filter.

"Something got hidden that I wanted." Two fixes, in order: (1) whitelist the creator if it's a channel you want to keep, and (2) if a keyword is too broad, narrow or remove it. Switching temporarily to Blur makes it easy to see exactly what's being caught and why. If you're on Remove and don't know what disappeared, Blur for a day will reveal it.

"Slop slipped through." This is the most important limit to understand. Unslop reads declared signals — visible text, your custom keywords and hashtags, and the platform's "Altered or synthetic content" disclosure label. It does not analyze pixels or audio, and it has no AI-voice acoustic detection. So undisclosed AI — a realistic clip with no label, no telltale text, and no hashtag — can slip past. That's not a bug; it's the boundary of a privacy-first, local, declared-signal approach. The fix is to add keywords that match whatever language that content does use, and to report patterns you see. No filter that respects your privacy this strictly can catch content that actively hides what it is.

A few hard limits worth stating plainly: Unslop is Chromium-only (no Firefox, no mobile), it covers YouTube and the Facebook main feed (not every site), and filtering slop out of your feed does nothing for AI's energy footprint — the IEA projects data-centre electricity roughly doubling from ~485 TWh in 2025 toward ~950 TWh by 2030, and a content filter doesn't change that. Unslop cleans your feed; it isn't a climate tool.

Putting it together

A good setup for most people: start in Blur, add 8–12 specific keywords plus a few disclosure hashtags, whitelist the two or three channels you know will get false-flagged, watch the counter for a few days, then flip to Remove. Revise keywords whenever something slips through or over-fires.

That loop — tune, observe, adjust — is the whole skill. The defaults are sane, but the filter gets dramatically better once it knows what you call slop.

Still stuck? The FAQ covers the common edge cases, and you can grab or update the extension from the Unslop homepage. Worth remembering why this is worth the few minutes of setup: consumer enthusiasm for AI-generated creator content fell from 60% in 2023 to 26% in 2025, and ~49% of US adults say they'd use social platforms less or stop entirely if AI content keeps rising. A well-tuned filter is how you stay.