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Browser extension that hides emails?

Do you know of a browser extension that scrambles or blurs email addresses on screen?

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    Beware of blur when obscuring important information: Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text.

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      Agreed. Blurring text is bad as hackers have figured out how to "unblur" the text. I think theirs also a YouTube video about it by the way. If its emails that's fine I guess but DON'T BLUR OUT SENSITIVE INFORMATION!!!

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      Thanks for recommendations gabe

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        Sanskar, great utility you have there. Insta-buy.
        Any chance you could extend it to:

        • automagically detect email addresses.
        • not blur, but scramble the words (blurring makes the interface look dead).
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          sure Rico i will add this, thanks for the feature requests

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      Excellent, it worked!

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    To target HTML anchors with the mailto-protocol, you can apply this little CSS tweak:

    a[href^="mailto:"] {
      filter: blur(4px);
    }
    

    For example, as a user stylesheet in your browser.

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    Hello! 👋

    Why would you need to hide emails?

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      I demo apps by recording my screen. I don’t have the skills to blur them by editing the video. So I’m hoping that some where there is a tool to let me keep users’s email addresses private.

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        Most recording apps let you record a part of the screen, so if the user is in a consistent place...

        Also normally ppl open dedicated demo accounts to show off (with fake content inc. emails)

        But there are some generic rewrite extensions that let you change any text to any other text I believe... you might be able to use that if it's just a few emails or maybe a rewrite pattern

        Also probably there are easy video blur tools try searching like "online video blur tool free"

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