Show HN: Minus – in-browser AI ad blocker that swaps ads for flashcards
Nothing leaves your machine — no server, no filter-list subscriptions, no telemetry. Real page, real ads: the banner and sidebar ad slots on theverge.com covered by flashcards ("la puerta — the door", "cuánto — how much"), each with the model's confidence tag and a faint ✕ to reveal the ad. How it works A classic ad blocker matches URLs against filter lists.
- ▪Nothing leaves your machine — no server, no filter-list subscriptions, no telemetry.
- ▪Real page, real ads: the banner and sidebar ad slots on theverge.com covered by flashcards ("la puerta — the door", "cuánto — how much"), each with the model's confidence tag and a faint ✕ to reveal the ad.
- ▪How it works A classic ad blocker matches URLs against filter lists.
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Story provenance
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/garagehq/Minus-chrome-extension |
| Publication time | Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:16:14 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-10T17:20:42.975Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-10T17:20:42.975Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | XmtVya1vHR81 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Minus — vision ad blocker (Chrome extension) The browser cousin of the minus HDMI device: instead of matching filter lists, it looks at page elements with a vision-language model running entirely inside your browser and covers the ones that are ads with language flashcards — so every blocked ad teaches you a word instead. Nothing leaves your machine — no server, no filter-list subscriptions, no telemetry. The model sees what you see. Real page, real ads: the banner and sidebar ad slots on theverge.com covered by flashcards ("la puerta — the door", "cuánto — how much"), each with the model's confidence tag and a faint ✕ to reveal the ad. The article is untouched. How it works A classic ad blocker matches URLs against filter lists.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.