Privacy
SlopMute decides what to hide inside your browser. It has no account, no server of its own, and no way to see what you watch. This page says exactly what is stored and where.
Last updated 17 August 2026.
Everything below happens on your device, in the browser tab you already have open.
SlopMute reads the text YouTube has already put on the page: video titles, channel names, badges and labels, visible metadata and accessibility text. It matches that against rules bundled inside the extension. That matching happens in your browser. Nothing about the videos you see, search for, or watch is sent anywhere for scoring.
Your browsing history and page content are never sent to an AI service, ours or anyone else’s. There is no model call, no API key, and no inference server. The rules are plain pattern matching shipped in the extension package.
The extension has no sign-in, no profile and no licence check. Install it and it works. Nothing identifies you to us, because there is no “us” for it to talk to.
The extension uses your browser’s chrome.storage.local. That is local browser storage on your own device. It is not synced to a Google account by SlopMute and it is not transmitted.
Whether SlopMute is on, which of the three categories are enabled, each category’s sensitivity and action, where filtering runs, Shorts and watch-page behaviour, and whether you have completed onboarding.
Channels you have muted and channels you have allowed, stored against the channel ID or handle YouTube exposes on the card. Videos you have permanently allowed, stored by video ID.
When you tell SlopMute it got something wrong, that choice is stored by video ID and category so the same video is not filtered again, and so a rule you corrected can be weighted slightly differently for you. It does not train a model and it is not sent anywhere.
Any custom phrases or advanced rules you create, including ones you import from a file. Exports are written to your device by your browser.
Counts only: how many videos were hidden, warnings shown, Shorts skipped, channels muted, and which built-in rules matched most often. To stop the same video being counted twice, SlopMute keeps short-lived bookkeeping records for eight days using the date, video ID, category and area. Those records hold no titles and no channel names, and delete themselves. Nothing here is analytics: there is nowhere for it to go.
The extension makes no network requests in normal use. The one exception is the thumbnail pipeline lab, which is off by default and hidden behind Advanced settings: when you switch it on, it fetches thumbnail images directly from YouTube’s own image servers to test caching. No detector is installed, so it cannot flag anything, and the images are not sent to us.
You can remove all of it at any time. Reset everything in full settings clears stored data, and uninstalling the extension removes its local storage with it.
The extension and this site do not share data. The extension never contacts this website, and this website cannot see anything the extension has stored.
The website uses Vercel Analytics to understand aggregate page visits and Chrome Web Store link clicks. It does not set tracking cookies, and campaign parameters such as gclid and UTM values may be attached to the aggregate store-click event. This website measurement is separate from the extension.
The Google Ads tag is disabled by default and is not downloaded until you choose “Allow measurement”. If allowed, Google may use advertising cookies and receive the page URL, campaign parameters, device and network information needed to measure visits from ads. Personalized advertising remains disabled. You can reopen Privacy choices at any time and withdraw consent. The tag runs only on this website: it cannot read YouTube or LinkedIn feeds, filtering history, extension settings or any other extension data.
SlopMute has launched, so the site no longer shows a launch form. Addresses given before launch were sent to Resend, the email provider we use, and are stored in their contact list. That was the only personal data submitted directly to SlopMute, it was given deliberately, and it is never combined with anything from the extension. The extension has no way to send it anything in the first place.
Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. You can also email us and we will remove you.
Email hello@slopmute.com. If anything on this page stops matching what the software does, the page is the thing that is wrong. Tell us and we will correct it.
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