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Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15053064

I normally hate this kind of blur and I'm not sure if this is worth such a big release note. I normally see such filters applied (forced on users by platform conventions), requiring a login to "unlock" and often you find yourself wondering why it was blocked in the first place....

Could be good to hide spoilers thought



This is used for sensitive images, but also as a placeholder while the full image loads, as the entire blurred image can easily be contained in the JSON data (it's around 30 characters long).




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