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		jasonlfunk on Aug 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome, Firefox extension that blocks NSFW images ... There is a company that was trying to work in this space called VidAngel. https://www.vidangel.com/ I used to use them quite a lot and then they got sued by everyone and now I’m not sure what they are up too. It’s unclear if a company has the right to offer others content in a modified form - ie filtering out unacceptable content. My favorite thing is that they had a JarJar filter for the Star Wars prequels.

sircastor on Aug 23, 2020 | [–]

They do on the fly skipping in streaming services. Rather than reselling modified content, they’re skipping time codes.

jasonlfunk on Aug 24, 2020 | | [–]

This must have been their pivot after getting sued. They used to rent filtered movies for $1.

umvi on Aug 23, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, VidAngel is pretty much non-usable now because of the lawsuit(s)

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