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It's easier than ever to de-censor videos

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382 points DamonHD | 2 comments | 15 Apr 25 17:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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AdmiralAsshat ◴[15 Apr 25 19:33 UTC] No.43697419[source]▶
My Windows-98 approved method for redacting a screenshot:

1) Open screenshot in MS-Paint (can you even install MS-Paint anymore? Or is it Paint3D now?)

2) Select Color 1: Black

3) Select Color 2: Black

4) Use rectangular selection tool to select piece of text I want to censor.

5) Click the DEL key. The rectangle should now be solid black.

6) Save the screenshot.

As far as I know, AI hasn't figured out a way to de-censor solid black yet.

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eviks ◴[15 Apr 25 19:50 UTC] No.43697570[source]▶
this method looks worse than pixelation/blurry style, those "just" need to be updated to destroy info first instead of faithfully using the original text
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1. MBCook ◴[15 Apr 25 20:40 UTC] No.43698119[source]▶
If you REALLY care then replace the real information with fake information and pixelate that.

But most people don’t care enough.

Or I guess you could make a little video of pixelation that you just paste on top so it looks like you pixelated the thing but in reality there’s no correspondence between the original image and what’s on screen.

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2. eviks ◴[16 Apr 25 06:27 UTC] No.43702129[source]▶
Most people have no clue, they are fooled by tools that lie to them, if they didn't care enough they wouldn't use the tools to hide the info