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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've switched to a mosaic blur. Looks neat and always destructive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Actually not always, there is a script that can recover text from mosaic'd screenshots if the font and pixellation technique is known. I just use a fake mosaic – the easiest way is to paste a bitmap of non-confidential text from elsewhere in the screenshot and then apply the filter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for that.

I'm glad I use really huge pixels though. Would be hard to crack these: