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Their neural network localizes your submitted hotdog images. To get around the block, try showing it a Canadian hotdog.


Will it block Canadian hotdogs shot on USA soil? How about Mexican hotdogs? Asking for a friend.


Canadian hotdogs on US soil (aka "cross-dogging") and vice versus are disambiguated by shadow inclination vs timestamp to estimate latitude (outdoors) and fingerprinting microfluctuations in the power grid and resulting effects on lighting (indoors, Canada has a much larger share of hydroelectric).

GPS was considered, but rejected as insufficiently cool.




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