Tired of seeing your feed clogged up with endless photos of your brother’s / friends'/cousins ' nipper ? If that ’s a solid yes , we have good news . There is now a Chrome plugin to deposit it .
In a carefully craft PR stunt , purveyor of condoms and lubricants , Skyn , has design a World Wide Web feature to block any baby photograph that bolt down up on your Facebook feed . ( See what they did there ? )
The detached - to - use plugin – competently named the “ Baby Blocker ” – utilize a Facebook process that studies the composition of each image uploaded to the platform and “ translates ” it into a inadequate description using object recognition technology . There are various categories that can be described – nature , for example , which may contain descriptors such as “ snow ” and “ sundown ” . It can also name people with label like “ smile ” , “ beard ” , and ( you guessed it ) “ baby ” . The description be given to be quite basic and useful ( think : " two mass " , " smiling " , " ocean " ) but users can go in andadjust the explanationthemselves to make it more vivid .
The original purpose of this process was to increase admittance to the more visual panorama of the website for the visually impaired , permit the unsighted and part sighted to " read " images with the assistant of a screenland reader . It is called“automatic alternative text”and was introduced to Facebook in 2016 . ( It was more recentlyadded to Instagram , too . ) But like most things on the WWW , it can be exploited for capitalist gain – and , on a more positive note , maybe advance more mass to operate in safe sexual practice at the same time .
In this picky plugin , photos of baby will be tracked , erased , and put back with another ( equally cunning ) range of a function .
We ’re not quite sure who is being so bombarded by photos of babies that they need to install a plugin to remove them all but inspiration from the military campaign patently came from the parentage of the late British royal infant . For anyone who has been live under a rock of previous , that is Archie Harrison Mountbatten - Windsor , the Word of Prince Harry and Meghan ( née Markle ) .
According to Jeyan Heper , CEO of LifeStyles , the Puerto Rico company behind the stunt , parent share anaverage of 1,500 photosof their child before they turn five . The purpose of the plugin is to give other users the alternative to opt - out of this “ predictable delirium of baby photos ” .
