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Mute, skip, and blur objectionable scenes on the services you already pay for. Every decision is made on your device — nothing about what you watch is ever transmitted.
You vetted the movie. You can't vet every scene.
FilterFlix handles the moment you didn't see coming — while it's happening, not after.
Per category, per profile
Six categories — profanity, violence, nudity, sexual content, substances, frightening content. Each one gets its own action and its own severity threshold. Not one blunt switch.
Playback moves past it. The story keeps its shape; the moment never plays in the room.
Word-level muting from the caption track. You keep the scene, you lose the language.
A shield sits over the video while audio continues. Full context, nothing on screen.
No marketing fiction
Streaming services differ in what an extension can technically see. Here is the honest split, which is more than our competitors will give you.
Full filtering
These platforms stream video unencrypted, so FilterFlix can analyse the picture on your device and blur a smaller, targeted region.
Caption-driven filtering
Premium services encrypt their video. FilterFlix decides from caption text and scene markers, then covers the whole frame rather than a targeted region.
What encryption blocks is detection, not blur. Our blur is drawn on top of the player — it never reads a single pixel, so it works everywhere, including Netflix. What we lose on encrypted services is the ability to see where to blur, so we cover the whole frame. Anyone promising pixel-precise filtering on Netflix is either breaking DRM or misleading you.
The field is not empty
VidAngel and ClearPlay have been doing this for years and do parts of it well — including living-room devices, which we don't reach yet. Here's the difference that matters.
| FilterFlix | VidAngel | ClearPlay | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sees what you watch | Architecturally can't | Yes | Yes |
| Account required to filter | No | Yes | Yes |
| Link your streaming logins | Never | Yes | No |
| Disney, Warner & Fox titles | Yes | Barred by legal settlement | Yes |
| Free platforms (YouTube, Tubi) | Yes, with targeted blur | Limited | No |
| Ad-supported streaming tiers | Yes | Yes | No — ad-free plans only |
| Living-room TV devices | Not yet | Yes | No |
We'd rather show you the row we lose than pretend it isn't there. TV is the real gap, and we're not going to promise a date we can't hold.
Architecture, not promises
Most privacy policies say a company promises not to look. Ours doesn't have to. Filtering runs inside your browser, on your processor — there is no server in the path of your viewing.
That distinction matters for what comes next. If paid features arrive, they may involve an account for billing and syncing your preferences. An account will still never mean we can see what you watch. Those are separate systems, and only one of them will ever exist.
Everyone on the couch
Kid, Tween, Teen, and Adult presets — or build your own. PIN hashes stay on your device. Switch profiles when the younger ones head to bed.
I'm a developer and a parent. I built FilterFlix because I got tired of the same two bad options — either pre-screen everything myself, or hand a company a list of everything my family watches in exchange for filtering it.
There's no technical reason those have to be the only choices. Filtering is a decision that can be made entirely on your own machine. So that's how I built it, and that's how it will stay.
Sean Schnare · Schnare Labs, LLCStraight answers
Yes. On Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Max, Hulu and Peacock, FilterFlix mutes, skips, and applies a full-frame blur driven by caption text and scene markers. On free platforms that stream video unencrypted — YouTube, Tubi, Pluto TV and others — it can also analyse the picture on your device and blur a smaller, targeted region.
Yes. The Family Movie Act of 2005 explicitly permits filtering content during private home viewing. FilterFlix changes only what appears on your own authorised player. Nothing is copied, decrypted, re-streamed, or redistributed.
Never. On encrypted services the blur is an overlay drawn on top of the player — it never reads a pixel of protected video. What encryption blocks is our ability to analyse the picture, not our ability to cover it. We do not attempt to circumvent content protection on any platform.
Nothing about what you watch. The extension transmits no viewing history, no scene matches, and no telemetry. Filter preferences live in chrome.storage on your device. The optional email form on this website is separate from the extension and never touches your viewing.
Not to filter — that runs entirely on your device and always will. If paid features arrive later they may involve an account for billing and syncing preferences. An account will never mean we can see what you watch; that's a property of how the software is built, not a setting we control.
Filtering is free. Optional paid features may come later. Caption and audio filtering will stay free.
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