# Local LLM for general-purpose spam & headline filtering?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Tags:** ai\
**Created:** [March 16, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-llm-for-general-purpose-spam-headline-filtering/1028495 "2026-03-16T17:20:56Z")\
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Has anyone had experience using a local LLM (because the cloud ones would be too expensive, I think?) to filter email topics, forum titles, news headlines, etc. in a web browser?

I’d like to be able to define a set of things I don’t want to see (like sports, celebrities, random Trump news, etc.) and have those topics automatically filtered out across all the news sites, forums, etc. that I use.