See also the userscript I posted in that thread 4 days ago, https://github.com/easrng/redactor . It redacts your selection though, not the whole page.
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#62The add-on page says: "This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing." As things stand today, gaining my trust would require some work on my side (and I'm a professional of IT Security). For the majority of Internet users (who are not expected to understand what 'package-lock.json' file does), this would take a leap of faith instead. Is there any service out t…
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#65In a similar vein, I made this to redact email addresses in my Stripe Dashboard:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ptero-redactyl/ekg...
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#66I'm still trying to understand for what someone would want an obfuscated screenshot for, but I found another use case: this way it is convenient to focus on the layouts of a different websites for inspiration!
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#67A long time ago I wrote a very simple extension that adds context menu commands for redacting text under selection. Still use it from time to time. Never made it public though.
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#68Another option for this is to use a “redacted” font like https://github.com/christiannaths/redacted-font I can't find it ATM, but I used to have a bookmarklet that added one of these as a css style on all elements (or removed its edits when run a second time, to revert the page). Shouldn't be too hard to write if I decide I want it again and still can't find the source of the one used back then. It didn't watch for a…
Yeah, a bookmarklet should work pretty well too, although indeed needs the font installed locally or requests going out to another sever. The advantage of the extension in that sense is that it includes the font locally and has a keyboard shortcut. Someone else also mentioned that font, so I logged that here: https://gitlab.com/vincenttunru/obfuscate/-/issues/2
But in the course of prepping screen shots with obfuscated text for use wherever, would the cost of hitting an additional server for a font be that bad? It's not like the whole webpage is not allowed to render because of this post-render user initiated change to specifically mess with the text.
Re: Show HN: Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
In FireFox people can get a similar effect with F12 -> Style Editor -> * {font-family:wingdings !important;} Or in Chrome, F12 -> Elements -> Styles on the right -> Fight with Chrome's interface.
I get that you were trying to be amusing with the Chrome comment, but in case you weren't actually aware, you only need to push the plus icon to insert a new style. It's the exact same number of clicks to accomplish that task in both browsers.
I was aware because I clicked plus[1] and pressed ctrl-v to put my firefox line in. And it broke because Chrome is "being helpful" by forcing structure in the UI, so it instantly turned into a lot of crossed out lines with yellow warning triangles, and there's there's no visible delete option, no context menu delete, it doesn't respond to the delete key, and Chrome's F12 is just so much more user-hostile than FireFox every time I touch it, like they're kinda forced to have one so people can develop websites I guess, but they'd intensely rather nobody had a good time because that's a potential loophole people could use to remove adverts.
Compare that to FireFox which just has a text box and you can type into it, or delete out of it.
[1] with that delightful UX where it's /invisible/ until you wave the magic cursor around in the right place.
Re: Show HN: Firefox extension to obfuscate web page text
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
In FireFox people can get a similar effect with F12 -> Style Editor -> * {font-family:wingdings !important;} Or in Chrome, F12 -> Elements -> Styles on the right -> Fight with Chrome's interface.
Surely wingdings are reversible?
I tried googling "black bar font" to find what the extension dev is using without downloading the extension, but gave up when I saw the Google results and realised how unlikely I am to find "font which doesn't need downloading and installing or hosting which renders normal characters as black bars".