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There's a service you can pay for right now that does this on the fly for Netflix and other streaming services. Edit 1: I just found this one: https://www.vida

There's a service you can pay for right now that does this on the fly for Netflix and other streaming services. Edit 1: I just found this one: https://www.vidangel.com/ https://www.vidangel.com/ but that's not the one I saw originally. Must be quite a popular service if there are competing providers. Edit 2: It looks like vidangel got into trouble: https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/vidangel-jury-verdict-damages-1203245947/ https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/vidangel-jury-verdict-dama... Edit 3: Here's another service: https://clearplay.com/ https://clearplay.com/

Animats 7y ago
Vidangel got into trouble because they were a for-pay streaming service selling copyrighted content. Clearplay is just an add-on for Google Chrome which downloads edit lists. They also sell a DVD/BluRay player which uses their lists. I wonder what Clearplay found to censor in Disney's Toy Story 4, Aladdin, Paddington, and Frozen. From their privacy policy: "ClearPlay Inc. uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service."
- pontifier 7y ago
  As someone very close to this story, the way they were doing it should have worked, but Disney writes the laws and owns the courts.
bigwavedave 7y ago
+1 for clearplay. My folks use it religiously (I don't mean it's literally because of religion, it's just an expression. But if I'm being honest, religion probably has to do with it) and I'm very grateful they do. My youngest siblings are adopted and have special needs, so while they're getting older and are really quite smart, they're extremely vulnerable to the influence of any media they consume, especially when they can't quite understand fiction vs nonfiction. Putting on clearplay 100% of the time when they watch a movie helps keep a lot of nasty surprises from doing so much damage.
- riffraff 7y ago
  I could see myself using this often if it was a built-in feature in netflix/primevideo. Often I am trying to watch something of low importance on TV while kids are running in and out of the room and I'd rather not accidentally expose them to a pointlessly prolonged sex scene, which seem to be in every single tv show these days for no apparent plot reason.

Animats 7y ago

Vidangel got into trouble because they were a for-pay streaming service selling copyrighted content. Clearplay is just an add-on for Google Chrome which downloads edit lists. They also sell a DVD/BluRay player which uses their lists. I wonder what Clearplay found to censor in Disney's Toy Story 4, Aladdin, Paddington, and Frozen. From their privacy policy: "ClearPlay Inc. uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service."

pontifier 7y ago
As someone very close to this story, the way they were doing it should have worked, but Disney writes the laws and owns the courts.

bigwavedave 7y ago

+1 for clearplay. My folks use it religiously (I don't mean it's literally because of religion, it's just an expression. But if I'm being honest, religion probably has to do with it) and I'm very grateful they do. My youngest siblings are adopted and have special needs, so while they're getting older and are really quite smart, they're extremely vulnerable to the influence of any media they consume, especially when they can't quite understand fiction vs nonfiction. Putting on clearplay 100% of the time when they watch a movie helps keep a lot of nasty surprises from doing so much damage.

riffraff 7y ago
I could see myself using this often if it was a built-in feature in netflix/primevideo. Often I am trying to watch something of low importance on TV while kids are running in and out of the room and I'd rather not accidentally expose them to a pointlessly prolonged sex scene, which seem to be in every single tv show these days for no apparent plot reason.