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Notice a pattern starting yesterday: many screenshots of potentially sensitive content shared through WeChat have scratches all over them, probably to avoid image recognization censors, just like wearing masks to avoid facial recognization. Not sure whether it works.

5:08 AM · Feb 7, 2020Twitter for iPhone

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This has a very long history in wechat groups, not a new thing at all. And yes, it helps.

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How does one put the scratches on them.... asking for a friend.

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Any external editing app or inbuilt features in many apps like telegram (when you select the photo from gallery there is option of "pen" click on that and do the scratching).

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Don't talk about any sensetive topics in any apps of Tencent .

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The idea can work, but that pattern will v likely not work, for many reasons

@adamhrv

what would you suggest as pattern to neutralize image recognition in these cases?

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Does not work... Sharing extract and translate using Bixby!!

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