Users cannot filter low-quality or unwanted content from feeds
Detailed description
Across social platforms, news aggregators, and the open web, users are inundated with low-quality AI-generated slop, buzzword-heavy marketing pages, irrelevant trending topics, and spam from new accounts, with no granular tools to suppress it. The pain is felt by power users on HN, developers on GitHub, students in schools, and everyday social media users who want signal without noise. Current platform controls are binary and blunt—upvote/downvote, mute, or block—with no domain-level filtering, account-age thresholds, topic suppression, or content-type toggles. Schools face the added challenge that keyword-based blockers can't distinguish harmful content from legitimate educational material. The result is that users either tolerate the noise or abandon platforms entirely, while a market exists for client-side and third-party curation layers.
Demand & momentum
Where it's mentioned
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I would love a way to mute particular domains on this website
Hacker News
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It's annoying when people post slop with no substance, but it's somehow worse when there's actual su
Hacker News
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I wish there was an internet-wide "don't show again" button for such slop pages
Hacker News
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That was our struggle with implementing "blocking" tech at a school I worked at. Is a kid looking up
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I wish we could flag some posts (like as "tangential") instead of this archaic upvote/downvote. And
Hacker News
Existing solutions
Browser extension enabling granular element and domain-level filtering across any website.
Google's ML-based API for scoring comment toxicity and content quality to aid moderation at scale.
Content filtering and parental control tool for blocking unwanted web content by category or domain.