It sounds like you're falling into a common pitfall of interpreting laws in terms of purely technical details rather than their intent. I recommend reading Wha

It sounds like you're falling into a common pitfall of interpreting laws in terms of purely technical details rather than their intent. I recommend reading What Colour are your bits [0]. The major point that it tries to get across is that as software devs, we think in terms of data and computers. The law doesn't. The law says "you can't have an image like X", and you immediately think "hah, well, arbitrary base64 encoded data isn't an image." The law doesn't care about that though. If the law says you can't display an image like X to users, then it doesn't matter what weird layers you go through. It doesn't matter if you stitch together 1 million 1-pixel images, or if you have them install a browser extension, it just matters if you intended for them to be able to see that image, and then they could see that image. The blog-post I linked does a much better job of explaining this, and I recommend reading it. [0]: https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23