If you’ve grown tired of sifting through generic, low-effort articles and AI-generated content online, a new browser extension may offer a clean break from the chaos. The extension, called Slop Evader, filters your web searches so that you only see pages published before a certain cutoff date — in this case, before the wave of generative-AI content began. In practice, that means your search results will skip anything created after late 2022, bringing back a browse experience rooted in human-written articles, forums, and genuine community posts.
Rather than trying to detect whether a piece was auto-generated or human-written (a complex and often unreliable process), Slop Evader takes a simpler — and more robust — tack: it just hides all results newer than the cutoff date. As a result, it cuts out vast amounts of what many people now consider “AI slop” — repetitive, generic, or shallow content that floods comment sections, blogs, and lesser-known websites.
For those who value real human perspectives, creativity, or trusted discourse over search-engine optimized content, this can feel like a breath of fresh air. On the downside, the trade-off is clear: you’ll miss out on recent news, updated guides, and newer web content. That limitation is intentional — the point isn’t to block all AI content forever, but to give users a chance to experience the web the way it was before mass generative-AI adoption.
The person behind Slop Evader says the goal isn’t nostalgia; it’s awareness. By giving users the option to filter out post-2022 content, the extension invites a conversation about how much of what we read nowadays is synthetic or machine-generated. In that sense, Slop Evader isn’t just a tool — it’s a quiet protest against the flood of low-quality digital noise.
