Not Safe for Work Filter

[dadiocoleman]

Add an option to detect images that are not safe for work and blur or hide them.

There are many APIs out there for this.

[LonM]

@dadiocoleman said in Not Safe for Work Filter:

There are many APIs out there for this.

Really? Could you name any? For me this looks like a nightmare to implement. (The way you've written the request looks like you want to analyse images individually).

Either you have every single image on the web hashed (fingerprinted) and verified against a database, but managing the size of that database would become an immense task.

Or, you just send every image the browser comes across off to a server somewhere to be reverse image searched. But there's a massive privacy leak there.

Lastly, you could have some sort of AI analysis tool on the computer itself. I'm not an AI expert, but good luck setting that up in a resource friendly way. People already complain a lot about the chromium engines memory usage.

A better workaround would maybe be to just not go looking for NSFW images, or use a filter based on domains instead that way images don't have to be analysed, and just get blocked completely (If you don't want to see them, I'd wager you would prefer a complete block over a blur anyway).

[Catweazle]

To upload images I use the Imgur extension. Imgur I think it has a corresponding filter, it is not possible to upload images from the web, which are not safe or have some protection (copyright or others).
Maybe it can be enough for the user

[Catweazle]

@gwen-dragon said in Not Safe for Work Filter:

@catweazle I think the users asks for a feature to hide NSFW images, not to sue and upload elsewhere.

I do not know, I thought at the beginning too, but then I responded by missing this request to a browser, since this optional filter is present in virtually any search engine, but not for other reasons, assuming the user knows it.

[code3]

I know this is old but with new improvements in JavaScript AI and some hard work by many people there is now a JavaScript library for doing this. Here is an extension made with nsfw.js:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nsfw-filter/kmgagnlkckiamnenbpigfaljmanlbbhh

[Catweazle]

@code3 , NSFW filters based on AI or algorithm in my opinion are always deficient, since this in many cases only depends on personal opinions.
This happens for example on FB and other sites, where statues, such as the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen and works of art and paintings are blocked, while passing quite gore images of war scenes.
I think this should always remain at the discretion of the user himself.

[code3]

@Catweazle said in Not Safe for Work Filter:

I think this should always remain at the discretion of the user himself.

Ok, that's fine. I'm just putting it out there, if others are interested in the feature, or if the OP wants to install that extension which would do exactly what they want.

[LonM]

Thank you for your request. As it has received few votes over 4 years, it is now going to be archived.