trigger-warning

A browser plugin to teach the browser what you do not wish to see.

Features

Implemented:

• None.

Planned:

• Choose categories of content that should be censored.
• Conceal paragraphs that contain keywords belonging to a censored category.
  • Concealed paragraphs give an indication of the categories of content they contain.
  • Concealed paragraphs can be completely revealed with a click or two.
  • Concealed paragraphs can be revealed while leaving the keywords concealed, with a click or two.
  • Concealed paragraphs can be gradually revealed with a click-and-drag operation. This would ideally be like peeling off a sticker.
• Add new categories.
• Add new keywords to categories.
• Immediately conceal an image, then indicate which categories it belongs to. The image data (probably hashed) is then stored as an entry in each category.
• Images belonging to censored categories are concealed, similar to paragraphs. There could be several ways to reveal images:
  • Instant reveal
  • Fade-in with some combinations of: contrast, colour depth, brightness, saturation, darkness, blur, size, resolution, random pixels.
  • Peel back a concealing cover, possibly with arbitrary points to grab the cover and peel it in any direction.
  • Pull image out from behind a cover, like removing it from an envelope.
• Query a central server to learn categories for content that the user has not yet flagged.
• Send category data to central server to contribute to the database of content categories.

Installation

Package as a xpi, then install in Firefox in the standard way.

To package as .xpi, in the project directory:

jpm xpi

To run a Firefox session with the plugin temporarily installed (e.g. during development):

jpm run

On my system this command does not properly find Firefox, so I have to also point to the Firefox binary:

jpm -b /usr/bin/firefox run