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I really like how people try to censor names and fail to do so. If you really want something like that to be irreversible put a fucking black rectangle instead.
Ah but that's hard to do on a phone and you know nobody uses computers anymore. Just scribble over it with your finger, like a toddler in Kindergarten. Good enough!
There's literally apps for redacting screenshots.
The best one I've seen is where people scribble over it but it's in a slightly transparent color so you can still easily read the text underneath. I can only assume that they were in a very bright environment because otherwise it's blindingly obvious.
You really expect people to download an entire app for a single image editing functionality, when the builtin gallery does "enough"?
I agree. Plus, we're sharing public info here so covering the names is really just courtesy
If it was posted publicly, then you can just search for it. The globe icon tells you that the post is public.
Sure, but user can always remove their message and don't want others to know they wrote that. And yes, I know that if you put something on the internet, you should be aware that it may never disappear, but publicly displaying regular people's names on different website with context is a big no-no in my opinion. Also in EU there's a right to be forgotten, and while I am not sure about exact details (I am not a lawyer), this might be illegal here as well.
How can you do that on a phone?
One of the other tools in the photo editor. Or just increase the pen tip size.
I don't know. Maybe select rectangle tool, or big pen with no transparency effect? How am I supposed to know exactly, I probably use different phone than yours, which has different set of built-in tools.
You have to use a crayon.
I think they did a pretty decent job censoring those names? I can't figure out any of them and I really tried, tbh.
Putting three instances of names as layers on top of each other with transparency effect already uncovers a large part of the most common name there, so I definitely disagree.
If you know the exact typeface and font size used, you can just try to put letters top of the image to guess them as well (so you try to match parts of the letter with one exact character to be precise). And I am pretty sure there are some tools that make this even easier (or at least made internally by some U.S. security agencies :) ).
I mean....... ain't nobody got time for that? But I got your points.
If it's a classified documents, then it's a horrible job. But for an internet shit post, it's decent.
You can even argue that with generative AI, it could figured the name in mere milliseconds. But then again, for a internet shit post, ain't nobody got time for that?
There are enough rare phonemes that you can easily find this from any search engine even if the names are blacked out completely.