For schools · free
Houndeye costs nothing for students or teachers. The tool flags AI-made YouTube videos and explains the reasoning behind each decision, effectively turning every clip into a brief exercise in verifying sources.
For your IT team
Houndeye can be rolled out across all school computers simultaneously by your IT team, requiring no setup for individual student accounts.
Navigate to the Google Admin console and go to Devices > Chrome, then select Apps & extensions followed by Users & browsers. Choose the right organizational unit from there. Next, pull in Houndeye from the Chrome Web Store by pasting the ID found below. Finally, confirm that you have set it to Force install.
Chrome Web Store ID
HoundeyejocmjdkjciadammcgbjgcgmpleffdbejTo deploy Houndeye on Microsoft Edge for Windows machines under the control of Group Policy or Microsoft Intune, place Houndeye's ID into the ExtensionInstallForcelist setting.
ExtensionInstallForcelist value
jhmmkkmmmoibmlfcbfninmjoenhjochc;https://edge.microsoft.com/extensionwebstorebase/v1/crxOn a single computer, anyone can add it from the store:
Student privacy
Since Houndeye operates without user accounts, it does not request names, email addresses, or school logins. The platform also never gets access to any watch history. It only transmits two specific data points. First, it shares the votes a student selects to submit, which are paired with a random anonymous number. Second, it sends the IDs of videos that carry YouTube's AI label. If a student prefers not to send this video data, they can turn it off in Settings.
Deep check is an optional scanner that operates directly on the device. It remains inactive until a user manually enables it. The file size for this one-time download is roughly 520 MB, which might prompt you to keep it disabled on shared Chromebooks.
Houndeye functions as a teaching tool rather than a web filter. The Family plan, designed for parents, includes Kids mode to restrict viewing content. Schools do not have access to this feature at present.
Every detail is in the privacy policy.
Classroom controls
If managing settings for an entire class or school district would benefit your institution, let us know what you require. We use this feedback to guide our development priorities, and a team member will respond to your inquiry.
We use what you send only to reply and to plan what we build for schools. Please don't include any student's information. See the privacy policy.